A Beginning Post

I feel as I look at this blog with it’s as of yet unwritten upon, single page, rather like I always do when looking through a new journal. I love the feel of a new journal, the crisp, clean, white pages, but most of all the reason I love a new journal is the thought of it. I love to think as I flip through the white pages of all the words one could write on them, of all the things one could say or not say, of all the things that are going to happen in one’s life before one reaches the end of those pages.

It’s just getting past that first page. Once you get passed the first page all the others come easily, but it is on that first page I am constantly double checking myself and fussing about the way “that letter looks lopsided” etc. Then I decide that the page is completely ridiculous and I rip it from the journal in frustration. To actually get somewhere you have to ignore the inner critic that is telling you of that first page’s ridiculousness and continue on. Later if you feel like it you can go back and rip out that first page, but not until you have adequate others to replace the one you have ripped.

As I was saying I feel right now I should begin this on a slightly introductory note (even though, personally I hate introductions and always skim read them) but I don’t think I can just jump into things, I shall hereafter do so with pleasure, however. Perhaps I should talk a little bit about why I chose Meaningful Words as my name for this blog. That was a subject I spent much time on, it is so much fun to name things and I loved just thinking of all the names I could choose. I came up with some rather good ones too, I thought, but I finally decided on Meaningful Words because I was thinking how important it was for your words to really mean something.

Words can bring so much joy and so much pain, so I think we should always mean what we say. I want whatever I say or write, be it story, poem, or blog post to mean something to me. I don’t want to write just to write, however much I love writing, I don’t want to write just a bunch of balderdash for the joy of writing. So we should consider our words and use them wisely. That’s what I love about poetry, with poetry you consider every word you use because each word adds to the rhythm of the whole.

I also chose this name because this blog is also going to be something meant to inspire me to write even more, because I feel that I have rather slacked off on my journaling pages, due to a lack in novelty and I need something new and inspiring to get me started on them once more.