There’s a lot of crap out there. It is undoubtedly possible to spend countless hours reading books, browsing the web, listening to music, looking at art, channel surfing, or just going out and exploring the world. The fact of the matter is that stuff is being produced faster than any one individual can hope to take it in. So where should our attentions lie, and not just our attentions, but our creative capacities. The reason that there is so much out there is because of the fact that so many people see it fit that they exercise their creative capacities in one way or another. To an extent, that’s what I’m doing with this blog. Much of it to me is writing to know what I think, because putting my thoughts down on something makes them more concrete and encourages progression of my own thought process, but I could do that in a journal if I so chose. If I’m going to be totally honest, another reason I choose to blog rather than just keeping it in a journal (except for the fact that journals have the ability to catch fire whereas the internet will live forever) is because I like to express my thoughts to the extent that I hope others will read them.
But in reality, I am quite aware that not many people read what I write down. I think so far my blog has a few hundred views or something, out of all the billions of people out there, and most of the hundred are probably from my mom or sister or something.
But anyways, since there is way to much out there to possibly take it all in, how we decide what we do take in. Do we watch youtube videos all day? Or listen to music with our free time? Perhaps we should spend our time reading blogs, or literature, or philosophy. But where would adventure in the outdoors fit into all of that madness?
In my opinion, we should all pursue whatever the hell we want. Some people get on people’s cases who spend the majority of their time watching TV, but how is that any different than me writing and running around in the wild. Me and the TV efficiando are doing the same thing, and that is pursuing what we love.
