I've been thinking about my site. While it's interesting to me, I could very well see someone making the argument that it's boring and pointless.
"Who cares about the system specs of your 15 year old run-of-the-mill midrange PC? And you telling about switching out a CMOS battery? That's the most boring and mundade stuff I've ever heard of."
I mean... yeah. Nobody needs to care about it. It doesn't have to be interesting.
I touched on this already in my other article, "Do websites need to have a purpose?".
This is in a way more of the same, but who cares? It's my site, I can do whatever I want with it.
Let's get philosophical. When it comes to life, most of the stuff you do, like 99%+, IS boring and mundane. You wake up, you brush your teeth, you go to work, you go grocery shopping, you get home to (hopefully) do things you like, you (hopefully) hang out with family and/or friends, you take a shit, you pee, you go to sleep. Rinse and repeat.
That's just the way it is.
Yet we have this idea in life that things that are larger-than-life is somehow the only things that are worthwhile. They are epic, desirable, bring us joy.
This is a double edged sword because it causes pressure on individuals to strive for extraordinary things.
You see all these successful people, but they don't mention that for every successful person there are a hundred, a thousand, a million people who have tried and failed. Or they just never bothered to try.
This is amplified by social media, by A LOT. Everything needs to be meticulously engineered to be a dopamine factory and to appease the mighty algorithm, or you risk being left behind in the dust. A nobody. A fate worse than death, apparently.
I'm not special. I'm just another random person, a member of the species homo sapiens, trying to survive and enjoy life.
There's nothing glamorous or extraordinary about me, and there doesn't have to be.
It's okay.
I write stuff here for me, and me only. I do it because it's fun to me.
It's my diary on computer stuff in public, html form. Read it if you want.
That's all there is to it.
The boring and the mundane is the essence of life.
Trying to chase after dreams is fine and all, but if you don't succeed - that's okay.
If you don't even care to try, that's okay too.
Chop firewood and carry water.
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