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What is the purpose of a blog anyway?
That’s a question with many answers. For me, a blog gives me a reason to write every day. What is the good of that you say? I don’t have a good answer. I find it fulfilling, although I’ll be the first to admit I don’t really know what that means. I think it might be a tool to help stave off the more debilitating side effects of aging, dementia in particular, but I realize there is no scientific evidence to back up that claim. Still, I’m hopeful. There is also a small part of me that wants to leave something behind. I’m not an artist or a musician, so those artifacts are beyond my ability. I worked as a software developer, but everything I built during my career has already been replaced and I’m only 7 years post-retirement. All I really have left is writing. The funny thing is no one reads this. I get it. In the age of Instagram, Facebook, Substack and god help us, X, who has time for the thoughts of one single person writing a daily blog? Perfectly understandable. A still small voice inside me says that I have something to contribute to this world, even if no one is listening. Maybe that’s the real lesson here. Do what we need to do and not worry about our influence. Many people today are more worried about their influence than they are about their contribution. Let’s turn that around. Influence be damned. Make a contribution.