This blog turns one year old today. Congratulations then, I guess... But I've never been given to celebrations, so what could I say instead? Maybe I could say I've come a long way and that I've been getting the hang of it. In fact I've spent countless hours not only writing and editing all of the articles I've posted but also going over tiny presentation details and doing some boring stuff, like for example reuploading each individual picture due to weird bugs and programming issues I don't quite understand. I can say I've been working hard and, in a way, it's a bit disappointing to not yet have gotten any readers aside from the very occasional and understandably distant friend. And in a more worldly sense, though it goes hand in hand, it's annoying to not have gotten any money out of it. Obviously I'd like to start getting my life in order but I don't call my failure to do that disappointing because I kinda wasn't expecting to be able to do so any time soon... What's that Rodney Dangerfield joke? I don't expect anything and I still get disappointed? I reckon that's just life, and my solution to it is to not expect anything except to get disappointed.
But this is not a sad occasion. In fact, I want this to be the exact opposite. Because while I've had trouble holding on to a whole bunch of stuff in my life, I never had any trouble holding on to my writing... It's the one thing I feel at least somewhat capable of doing, and the one thing I never considered giving up. Much to the contrary, having started this blog somewhat impulsively, I have since written for it very steadily, most of the articles being about stuff I've been thinking about for a long time, and thus I tried my best and published them at a very decent pace. I very much like doing it, as it's the only thing in life that strikes me as meaningful, and I guess I'm a bit proud of what I've written so far, and though I've gotten virtually no recognition for any of it, that's not gonna stop me. By now I'm doing this more as a vocation than a hobby, and if one day I managed to mix both and to build my life on my writing I'd be very happy, at least for a little while. But until then, or rather, if that day ever comes, I'll be here doing more of what I've done so far, celebrating now with no readers so that hopefully one day someone can celebrate with me.
So then, congratulations to this, my seventy-fifth post, and here's to at least one or two more!
Mas isto não é uma ocasião triste. Aliás, quero que isto seja o exato oposto. Porque embora eu tenha tido dificuldades em empenhar-me em toda uma série de coisas na minha vida, nunca tive quaisquer dificuldades em dedicar-me à minha escrita... É a única coisa sobre a qual me sinto mais ou menos capaz de a fazer, e é a única coisa que eu nunca pensei em abandonar. Muito pelo contrário, tendo começado este blog de forma algo impulsiva, tenho vindo a escrever nele muito regularmente, a maioria dos artigos sendo sobre assuntos sobre os quais estava a pensar há já muito tempo, e assim dei o meu melhor e publiquei-os sempre a um ritmo certo. Gosto bastante de o fazer, até porque é a única coisa no mundo que me surge como significativa, e acho que até estou um bocadinho orgulhoso do que escrevi até agora, e embora não tenha recebido praticamente reconhecimento nenhum, isso não me vai impedir. A esta altura estou a fazer isto mais como uma vocação do que como um hobby, e se um dia eu conseguisse misturar os dois e construir a minha vida na minha escrita eu seria bastante feliz, pelo menos por uns tempos. Mas até esse dia, ou antes, se esse dia algum dia chegar, eu estarei aqui a fazer mais do mesmo, a celebrar agora sem leitores para que talvez um dia alguém possa celebrar comigo.
Então parabéns a este meu setuagésimo quinto artigo, e que eu escreva pelo menos mais um ou dois!
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