Pressure

Sometimes I feel pressure to always write something profound here, something important and historic. Something shareable.

But the truth is that most of my life is mundane.
Driving, grocery shopping, teaching, folding laundry. Co-op, church, meeting with friends.
There’s nothing really epic happening.

And I think that’s the story for people of the past, too: they just lived their daily lives, unaware that we would be so fascinated by them centuries later. Most of the time, they didn’t think anything epic was happening either.

Even the most mundane days contribute to the historical record. We just don’t know their impact on the bigger picture of a particular era until we are long gone. That’s why leaving a paper trail is so important for posterity: writings are absolutely invaluable to future historians, who collect and analyze their findings, using them to help reconstruct the past.
To reconstruct the days we’re in right now.

So, not every post here will be a winner.
Maybe none of them are.
But I’ll write them anyway.
And I hope you write, too.