That man's thoughts on pressure...

Pressure.....I have friends who write blogs often. For some reason that seems to escape me, they have this ability to think up incredibly interesting and provocative material to write about multiple times a week, or even...A day. To add to that, they have this incredible confidence in their thoughts that allows them to write with...uh...confidence.
I've been watching this blog thing for a while, mostly as my wife has been posting photos and telling her followers about our life. It has often seemed like alot of work to me, maybe this is because I'm curious if I can write a blog at the same level of erudite expression as some of the others I've seen. BUT LATELY........ I've begun thinking it might be fun to give this whole blog thing a shot.

So here we go and yet I feel this pressure.. what should I write about? Calvinism versus Arminianism....Obama's new health plan.....the literary implications of Dumbledore actually being gay (according to Rowlings herself: he's gay...didn't see that coming, not that he couldn't be a powerful warlock and gay at the same time, I mean magic makes no differentiation with sexual preference)..there are so many things to write about and nothing really comes to mind except that I feel pressure...AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH Pressure!!!! But why is it I really feel this? What if this is all pure drivel? What if every time I write a blog it amounts to nothing more than tin foil on the reader's teeth? What if I never say anything important, controversial, profound or even slightly interesting? would I be thrown in jail? no...Would I be impaled, or torn apart by lions? no...not likely.. would my friends talk about me at their secret dinner parties: 'Did you hear about that man...his blogs are so poopy." Yea, that might happen. but even then, it wouldn't really be the end of the world would it? Thucydides once said:

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”

Perhaps, the future is something I cannot control, all I can do is face the pressure and write this blog thing!!! perhaps people will laugh at that man over buttery asparagus and put that man on their top 10 worst blogs on the internet.. but I cannot control it. I can only face the pressure. lean into the pressure. And write.... so begins that man's blog. i hope it doesn't suck, but heck if it really sucks then maybe i'll feel pressure to make sure it continues to suck. man why do we do this to ourselves?