Writing from the Core
When you can’t find an answer, maybe you’re asking the wrong question
“I write a few things online” — I often say when that fact becomes relevant in a conversation.
I say it in a way like I’m devaluing it, as if it’s something my 9-year-old son could do. Paradoxically, I’m looking for cheers, claps, and celebrations, because most of the people I talk to about this don’t publish anything online other than fake Instagram stories and shallow Facebook posts, so I’m secretly expecting them to admire my courage to publicly share my ideas with the world.
“Look at me, I’m so special!”, my eyes scream in silence.
I hate this, but I can’t help it, because they are both true.
It has never been easier to send ideas to the world through your fingertips — my 9-year-old can do it — and it is a courageous thing to do when you do it properly, when you show your naked mind to anyone who chooses to read your work instead of scrolling a dozen TikTok videos of half-naked bodies.
Right after I tell people about this, they immediately ask “What do you write about?”
And then I start to rumble.
I tell them I write about personal growth — “but not the cheesy stuff!”, I always emphasize — and that I also write…
