I’ve had a lot of trouble starting my blog. For some reason I’ve been very scared to start writing in it and there are two terrible, stupid reasons for it. The first is, I’m not sure if anybody will like what I have to say, and in turn not like me and leave a hateful comment basically saying that I’m worthless as a person which would then send me on a spiral into depression where all of my confidence in myself will be gone and because of this simple blog post my entire life will basically be over. Even while these thoughts were going through my head, I knew how ridiculous they were, and even if I do get a few hate comments why should that stop me? Because yeah there may be quite a few people that hate what I have to say, but there will probably be more who, at the very least, are tolerant of what I’m saying and there might even be a few people who, dare I say it, actually like and agree with what I have to say. I know, what a revelation, right? Plus I started thinking who even cares if anybody else likes it? If I like it then that’s really all that should matter, right? The other reason why I was scared, and the more likely out of the two to actually happen, is that nobody would even read anything that I wrote here and that I would just be wasting my time. This is something that I’ve struggled with quite a lot recently. But why should it even matter if anybody reads this? To me the point of creating anything whether it be a blog post, a novel, a dance or a song is not to become famous or popular. Songs, dances, novels, etc. should be created for the sheer joy of creating something new. Something that you feel needs to be out in the world, and whether your novel becomes the next Harry Potter or an E-book that only your mother reads that shouldn’t make any difference. Well ok there’s one difference and that’s how much money you make from it. But the feelings of accomplishment and creativity should be the same. You should be proud that you were able to create something that nobody else would even have a chance of creating. In other words if you become famous and rich off your creative endeavors than that’s amazing! But if you don’t and nobody but you and a handful of others ever see what you’ve created that’s great too! The joy of creating new things that you can be proud of is honestly all that should ever matter! I know it’s not that easy to actually think like this. We live in a society that really seems to put a lot of emphasize on how something turns out. Not many people in todays society care about the joys of creating or are even happy for you that your creating something new. They want to see the end result. They want to see if your going to become a world-class dancer, a bestselling novelist, a blockbuster actor, or even a famous blogger (That has got to be the stupidest sounding word ever. Say it really slow and you can see what I mean) and until then they’ll probably criticize you and say that you don’t make any sense, that you’re weird, that you’re stupid, and that you’re wasting your time. Trust me I’ve heard most of them and at times they’ve knocked me down and made me stop and almost give up creating at all. But I haven’t and I don’t intend to and even if it takes me awhile to get over my own fears of going into the unknown I’m not going to let them or even myself stop me from creating and you shouldn’t either! Now I’ve gone over some of my struggles to start something new so now, if anybody actually reads this, I’d like to hear about some times when you’ve had trouble starting something new that you were scared of and how you found a way to get over that fear.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
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