I Have Lost my Voice

I have not done a great job with this blog, and I think I finally figured out why.

I have lost my voice.

Obviously…well, not obviously to my readers, but still obviously, I do not mean that literally.  My speaking voice is just fine.

25 years ago, I graduated from college, rather later than usual for getting a Bachelor’s degree, as I went to three different universities and in between #2 and #3, I spent about a decade working.  During my third set of school days I used to carry around paper notebooks and during breaks I would write in them on all sorts of topics.  I would call those topics philosophical in nature, but it was often about defining certain things, like intelligence.

I have also kept a journal for the last 43 years.  I have several bound volumes and the last decade or so is on computer.

I have done a lot of writing over the years, and yet I cannot seem to keep up with this blog.  I think that the problem is that I have too many distractions.  This ties in with the fact that I do not read as much as I used to.  I used to read between 50 and 75 books a year.  Some years ago, I set myself the goal of reading 100 books in a year and for three successive years I met that goal.  Lately, I have been lucky to top 25 books in a year.

I have games on my phone, games on my tablet, and games on my PC.  I have videos on my hard drive, Netflix, Amazon Prime, not to mention the length and breadth of the internet.  So, I have a vast array of things designed to help me avoid boredom, but it was that boredom that gave me time to think deeply, and then write.

One of the problems is that distraction does not really relieve boredom.  It just masks the boredom.  It delays the boredom.  Then the video ends, or you finish the game and the boredom rushes back in and fills the void.

The real question is what, if anything, I am going to do about it? 

I am not sure that I can eliminate the boredom with writing, but I think it might help, at least a little.