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What Can I Do?
Using the lessons of my past to help myself and other people to live better today — and better still tomorrow.
Initially, I started journaling to keep track of what was going on inside my head. There was a lot of noise, variable ideas, and things I needed to analyze and observe.
I have six notebooks full of reflection stretching back nearly 30 years. A great deal of the material in them means nothing to me now and is of no real value, save to show me where I came from.
Unchecked depression tends to dominate my old journal entries. But there were some ideas for things I desired to have and to create, as well as analyses of my life overall.
When journaling inevitably evolved into blogging, my first audience was small. If you were my friend on LiveJournal, you were getting to read my thoughts when I shared them. Again, they tended to be me-focused. A lot of reflection, trying to work out why nothing ever seemed to be where and how I desired for it to be.
As I changed, so did my writing. Eventually, while there was still a me-focus to this, I also turned it outwards. Why? Because one of the things I have always desired most to do is to help others. What can I do? How can I help? What can I do to make a difference in the lives of other people?
