Arete Eudaimonia

A funny thing happened today. I opened up my inbox to find an email from Twitter telling me that someone was now following me on Twitter. I found this rather strange as I do not have a Twitter, but I checked it out anyway. Turns out to be someone whose article I commented on at the Atlasphere. It was very refreshing to be remembered and checked up on. As a consequence I am completely rethinking my aversion to Twitter. Up to this point I was pretty sure Twitter was something up with which I was not going to put. I had heard many stories of the inane goings on at Twitter and I thought “I’m on Facebook, why be on Twitter too.” But this one experience has galvanized me to possibly join twitter, but also to write in my blog finally.

I have finally come up with an appropriate theme, as it’s very difficult for me to write anything unless it’s done in my particular style. For instance, I will not write in a journal unless I like how it looks. Oh sure for schoolwork I’ll write in any old notebook to study from later, but any time I’m going to take time and chronicle the goings on in my life, or write creatively for my own benefit, it must be in something nice, usually leather bound. So this blog is the online incarnation of my leather bound journal. You see, the leather journal carries a context in my mind. I imagine myself in a fantasy story on some sort of adventure, and it is up to me to keep notes on my tale in a journal. The journal must be sturdy and rugged and be able to bear weathering. Were I not able to see this context in my mind when I write in my journal, I would not be inclined to write in it.

The same goes for my blog. The theme I have chosen is “Writing to future archaeologists.” Every time I write in it now, it will have that context. I will know who I am writing to precisely, and be able to address him or her personally. That helps to give me new ideas for my blog, and keeps my motivation for writing it up. So here I am, future man, writing to you, telling you about what goes on in my life and what I think about.

I must also apologize to you. My grammar is abhorrent and my writing skills wanting due to lack of practice. This blog may also be used as a gauge for my linguistic reeducation, as I further prepare myself to return to college and get a degree.

Perhaps in the next post I will go into what degree I might try for.