Profundities

January 16, 2007 · Filed Under general

I’d like to think that I’m chock full of profundities. You know, little gems of thought & common sense that will amaze and astound you such that you’ll not only regularly read my blog, but that you’ll also pass them along so that more & more folks can bask in the shared glow of my entertaining wisdom.

Alas and alack, such is not the case.

I’m neither as profound, nor as entertaining as I want to be. Not in your estimation, and certainly not in my own.

I’ll try to work on it, however, so that I’m at least reasonably entertaining enough to warrant a few of your thought cycles every day or three. And I figure that the best way to be a worthy read is to be interested in what I’m writing. As long as I’m happy with, and interested in, what I write, then that’s enough for me. I have enough things making me crazy in day-to-day life, that I don’t need to load a worry about pleasing/catering to my “audience” on top of it all. That’s not to belittle y’all — ’cause I’m grateful for all y’all’s visits — but rather a check on myself & my own delusions of adequacy (someday I hope to have delusions of grandeur!). I’m really not as snarky as I sometimes come off as being on this blog (close, but not quite) — it’s just that it’s most times easier to write that way and, I think, a little more entertaining to read. Sort of like the difference between reading TV Guide and a “real” book. It’s easier to blast out a few posts that have a kernel of substance amidst the snark than it is to constantly try to put out deep/profound/meaningful posts. I will still (try to) put out the “significant” stuff every so often, but I just don’t think I can (or want) to do that exclusively — taking myself that seriously is not, I think, a good & beneficial thing…

So, I’m hoping that writing will start to come a little easier now that the double-edged sword that is American Idol (aka AI:6) is about to grace/plague us with its presence once again. I know full well that it’s not really all that significant in the “big picture”, as it’s really just a piece of superficial pop-culture fluff, but it’s an interesting piece of fluff. Realitytv isn’t gonna save the world, but it doesn’t have to; rather, it can help keep us entertained. The same is true of discussing it & writing about it.

That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it…
-ghp