Better Door Than Window

One problem I have been having lately is that I really want to write more, but I find myself too busy to really have any time to really form anything substantial. My free time has been rather sparse lately and free time that I do have I feel more like relaxing than working on something creative. It is unfortunate, but a big part of the problem is more of my high standards of what I send out there on the internet.

If i have noticed any trends on the internet, it is that people are more apt to watch, listen, or read something that is short than dedicate themselves to something longer. It doesn’t seem to really matter of the media in question is any good or not. In the end, people would rather see several dumb youtube videos than watch a good movie on the same service. So many times I have shown someone something that they like the first five minutes of and then they stop watching, not because it stopped being good, but mostly because they don’t want to spend the time to experience it. Then they proceed to watch 20 or so short youtube videos instead. Granted, maybe it is just people being nice and just not liking the longer things I show them, but I feel like it is more of a question of how people have been conditioned to consume things on the internet.

I feel like I am tooting an old horn here, but it is frustrating sometimes to spend your own time trying to create things for people to enjoy but having them ignored, not because they are bad, but because their attention spans aren’t up to the task. There are many times I feel I would almost enjoy sometime tearing down something I created if only because it was proof that they actually put in the effort and not only consumed it, but analyzed it to the point that they can criticize it.

Alas, in the end, writers write for an audience, not for themselves. So I am going to try and write something every week, but maybe make it less ambitious for both the benefit of my free time and the audience who doesn’t want to read my long rants on often silly things. Though, I only have myself as an editor, so I can’t guarantee any miracles. SO LET’S GET THIS ROLLING!

So the name name for the blog is “Better Door Than Window,” which is a saying commonly said to me when I would be standing in front of something people were looking at. I am not sure if that is just a common saying, or if people thought that I imagined myself with window qualities (or perhaps people saw door-ish qualities in me), but it is something that I always remember. It has gotten to the point that I have somehow made it into something much higher, something with much more meaning than it probably should have.

You see, being a window just means it frames something; something to look at or admire. With this blog, I want to not just bring things to attention, but have it make people think. That is the goal of this blog, to bring up stuff I think about a lot (perhaps too much) and hopefully that will make you, the reader, think about it too. My plan is to post every Friday, so let’s open the door together, shall we?