I’ve been writing online for a decade and a half, and the question I’ve always wrestled with is “how much is too much to share?” It was a major theme in my honors project in college. It’s the reason I’ve started and restarted far more than my fair share of blogs. And it’s the reason that so many of my posts, if not all, are focused on my 30 Before 30 project or specifically on training.
Sometimes I’m concerned about the privacy of the people I love. Other times it’s because, no matter how much an issue is pressing on my heart or mind, I’d rather not have to defend myself over my opinions on (or experience of) it.
There’s a lot going on right now, and I hope someday to feel comfortable writing about more of it.
But I am thinking, a lot, about justification. How we justify our behaviors and our attitudes and our differing standards (for others and ourselves, or for people like us and people not like us, et cetera) – both on a benign, impersonal level and in specific instances.
I am also working on caring less about things that don’t matter or channeling that energy into more productive pursuits. Or something. It just seems to me that so much of what troubles the world stems from caring about the wrong things. At least, this small corner of it.