How does one write without being self-aggrandizing, without sounding utterly self-important? Most of the time, the act of writing disgusts me. It almost requires the production of easily digestible soundbites, statements simplified by the constraints of intercommunication. To write is to limit oneself. And I don't want to be pinned down. My written words don't betray "who I am." Pomposity. There's nothing new about this insight, but I'll say it again - our words reveal who we wish to be. Ultimately (or maybe initially), writing is an act of ingratiating desperation.
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I have a 'Zen board' which is just a piece of cardboard that you write or draw on with a paintbrush dipped in water. Whatever image you create disappears in just a few seconds. If only this page were a zen board.
***edit: to say this is dishonest on my part. i have the ability to delete anything i write soon after i write it, or never to write it at all. i just don't wish to.
For more on this subject, see: Zen And the Art of Doing Things Badly
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