The Right To Fly
January 31, 2007
It starts off simple. The urge to tell the world something -- anything. The flame is strong. Burning. The heart is rampant. Racing. The desire is breathing. Heavy. And with good reason. The urge to blog has almost replaced the urge to procreate. Almost.
In a roundabout way, blogging IS procreating. We are regenerating parts of ourselves. Parts that will outlive us. Parts that will go on until infinity. Nowadays so many people want to blog and tell the world their story. Their secrets. Things they don’t even tell their closest friends. They start with the curiosity and wonder of a child in a wading pool. They put their foot in, wave it around a little and then take it out without jumping in completely.
As of 2006, over 200 million blogs were left without updates. Left floating in the blogsophere without a life jacket. Left for dead as their lifeless bodies desperately utter their last words. Abandoned blogs are cluttering the blogosphere like unmarked cyber graves that once promised a new idea or slant on an old idea. Now the cyber graves represent bloggers whose passion died prematurely. Bloggers that had the courage to start but not finish. Bloggers who had “temporary passion.”
Passion is not temporary, it’s permanent. Though it can change courses, you lose the momentum you have already built, then you have to start from scratch. You wind up starting many different projects and not finishing a single one. Your passion is then put on hold -- right next to your dreams. The phrase, “If I had only finished that,” will continued to haunt you for the rest of your life.
Your passion is what keeps you alive -- and what makes you feel alive. It’s inside you waiting for every opportunity to come out and let you shine. If it doesn’t come out, it too will die prematurely. You want it to come out. You want it to breathe life into you. You need it to live your best life. You need it to be happy.
Blogging is just one way to encourage your passion by talking about it. It creates an electronic record in the universe, an acceptance of your gifts, an acknowledgment that your passion is being nurtured. So why do so many people abandon blogging? What happens? Do they run out of things to say? Do they run out of passion? Have they given up on dreaming?
Life changes so rapidly that what was once novel becomes more of a chore. Passion takes discipline. Courage. Will. Determination. Planning. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight, but the Wright brothers planned their flight longer than it took the wingspan to be built. Wilbur Wright went 112 feet in 4 seconds, 3 days later Orville Wright went 120 feet in 12 seconds. Then Wilbur went 175 feet in 13 seconds and Orville followed it up by going 200 feet in 15 seconds. Wilbur then went 852 feet in 59 seconds. The rest is history.
Each time they did it, they closed the gap to their goal. The more they put into it, the more they achieved. They never abandoned their vision of flight. They matched what they saw in their heads to what they saw out of their heads. Their dreams came to fruition. Although they didn’t technically blog, they did keep copious notes on their goals. That’s the bottom line of blogging, creating your life in a way you want it. Whether it is just getting something off of your chest or creating a spiritual construct to something you want. Blogging helps blueprint your life.
Blogging is a clearing house of thoughts. Thoughts that may go unheard if they don’t have an outlet. It’s internet therapy. More than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet? There must be something that draws us in. Why not make it work for us?
If your wingspan is longer that your flight, what’s the point of flying? It’s time to get your dreams. Discipline is hard, but abandoning the song of your Soul is even harder. Blog on.
