Everything is insignificant....

which feels more than a tad depressing. And maybe that seems like a poor way to start a new venture.
But.
Here's the rest of the quote..
"Everything is insignificant, but it is important that you do it anyway."

Gandhi said that. Ghandi! Surely Gandhi can't be wrong.

I have a ton of "aha" thoughts go through my head each day, well some days anyways. Some of those thoughts seem rather insightful at the time. Some feel positively brilliant. They often come when I'm doing dishes or out in the garden. Why is it that they disappear when I sit down to write?

Because now I want it to be important, to be big, to invoke change in the world. I want it to matter. I want it to be good. And that puts pressure, and judgement and all of the things that block our creative impulses.

 So instead, let's go with the idea that this blog thing is insignificant. And if it is insignificant, then it doesn’t have to be good. It doesn’t have to matter. In fact, it can be shallow and shitty and puny.

There's freedom in that. And that is not depressing, but liberating indeed.
So I am hereby granted freedom to create insignificance.
But it is important that I do it anyway.