Thinking of Focus
Friday, September 29th, 2006If you haven’t noticed, for a while now I haven’t felt the drive to blog much. There a lot of things I have been reading and I bookmark other people’s articles, but then I can’t find the incentive to actually sit down and write.
Part of that is a result of the complex of symptoms I am facing at the moment: depression still being worked through, anxiety still trying to be defused, and now the possibility of sleep apnea being a major energy drain lately. In a few weeks I am going in for a sleep study to hopefully confirm that and start treatment for it.
But there is another issue behind my blog block: no focus. I guess when I started this I thought it would be a good way for me to formulate and share my perspective on things in the world and life. However, I have been feeling lately that there is too much to write on and other people write so much better about those things than I would. As I think of the blogs I keep going back to and reading, they are the ones where the writers are knowledgeable about some issues and areas and focus on interpreting that experience in their own way.
So today, I began thinking about where I want to focus. I know there are some issues and areas that I get passionate about, but I have lost touch with those in the pursuit of generality. I won’t be a one-trick pony, but I need to choose a couple favorite lenses that I can use to look at the world. I want lenses that can help to bring some creativity and some benefit to you the reader and to the world the context.
I don’t think this will take long, and you will be the first to know about it.
I’m open to suggestions.
