Things Written When I Had Nothing To Write

What do you write when you have nothing to write?

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(Written on Dec 20, 2021 while I was reading too much of Nietzsche. Edited today.)

• As I sit here with my laptop staring at this white canvas that tells me to write my story, I wonder who I might be writing it for. I wonder who would care about these ‘stories’ — which are in fact nothing but doubts, excitements, half-formed/uninformed ideas, opinions, perspectives and reveries. Yet, I believe such writing has the potential to do a lot if only a lot of people read seriously! I have even derived a quote: Writing is a small attempt with a huge potential consequence.
• Some writers feel like an ocean while some like muddy streets.
• What I have noticed is, the more you write the better your typing gets. I do not know what importance it has on whatever I will end up writing today but I thought it would be a fun thing to share.
• If you are like me who doesn’t have a dedicated list of things to write, at times you must also feel there’s nothing special to write. What do you do then? Yet a feeling inside you pushes you to write, doesn’t it? It is like an addiction. Let’s call it habit. Yet, that feeling is nothing but the reasons why you write telling you why you should now be writing.
• I started this by focusing on what Medium puts in its header: Title and Tell your story…I think it was a good start.
• Yesterday I visited a bookstore and I saw a book written by a person who has participated in mediocre art-works throughout his life. His book was a Self-Improvement book and he was supposedly instructing others on how to live a quality life. IRONY!
• If there’s anything in my life that resembles the cat and mouse situation it is me trying to interpret and understand what is causing my anxiety.
• Writing while on a block is like dragging yourself out of bed on a cold winter morning. At first, you may feel that you won’t be able to do it, but once you try, you’ll find a way to push through.
• People who have the habit of questioning whether their pursuits are substantial or not, are both lucky and unlucky. Unlucky because they can no longer be children-like. Lucky because they can no longer be children-like.
• As a writer, you can bend the Universe in whatever way you want. But for that you need strong shoulders. (Thanks Nietzsche!)
• Let’s say, it’s 2070 and Humans have settled on Mars or some other planet. What did you imagine them doing there? — — I imagined them quarreling over some piece of land.
• My dog is a local Nepali guy. What I realized today is that if I look at him without his name and all other cultural associations I have with him, he is a raw and wild animal in a manmade world of language and technology.
• Sometimes I utter the word Humans and enter a trance.
• We humans, in this Cosmos is: a weird situation. Living to figure this riddle out is equally important to Living to make the world better, if not more!
• You want to see the power of ideas? — — Imagine a cold dark pessimistic philosophy ruling everyone’s thoughts!
• Without entertainment and art, we would feel cold.
• What is Art? — — Art is to humans what humans are to the Universe.
• It is not AI vs Humans. It is Avaricious-Humans vs Rest of the Humans.
• Never be afraid of other people.