- Contributed by Big L
Isn’t it funny how when you talk about, think about, or delay something long enough, it becomes too big to swallow? Like, picture yourself bicycling (to the store maybe, for a treat or your cigarettes or whatever). You’re casually cruising along, then hit a pothole and wipe out and get scraped and need a Band-Aid or two. But then instead of getting right back on next time you need a treat or a pack of cigs, you don’t. Instead, you put it off, and put it off, and put it off some more. And then bicycling goes from a thing you liked, to a thing you really can’t get your mind around doing, because scraped knees kinda hurt. And falling is really embarrassing.
OK, that one’s hypothetical – I suck at bicycling.
For me, the same thing happened with running. I went from loving it and doing it all the time to all of a sudden, not. And now, I know I used to love it, but what if I don’t anymore? I’m so out of shape that running seems, like, really hard. Impossible almost. So I keep putting it off. And it’s impossibleness continues to grow.
For us, the same thing happened with blogging. Its something we’ve been talking about doing for so long, that now we can’t, or shouldn’t or are afraid to actually do it. But why? Isn’t blogging supposed to be a nonchalant thing you casually do, because anyone can do it, and everyone is doing it?
What we need to do is realize that the worst case scenario is NO. BIG. DEAL.
So I run around the block, and my lungs feel like they’re gonna explode, and my shorts are a little too tight, and it’ll be a lotta days of that before I can run 10 km again, who fucking cares? No one but me, that’s who.
So we start a blog, and maybe we keep it up, or maybe we don’t. Maybe other people read it, or maybe they don’t. Maybe it provides some thoughtful release and we entertain one another, or maybe its too much effort and we can’t hack it. We can delete the whole damn thing anytime we want.
If you spend enough time thinking about something that it becomes too big to swallow, that probably means you should rip the damn Band-Aid off and do it already. So today, the Band-Aid comes off. We blog. I run. Quite simply, we giv’r.
First of all, let me start by saying I love the blog! You guys are great! And I hear you on the running thing. I used to love it, too, but that love went away…and was replaced by laziness and potato chips! You’re an inspiration to us all!
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