There are days, like today, right now in fact…when I have nothing to say. 

I have carved up time in my day to write a blog. I am sitting in front of my laptop ready to type. And usually, the ideas and words just flow from my brain, through my fingers, and onto the screen.

But today I just sit thinking there must be something I want to talk about…any idea or thought that has been rolling around in my brain, and that needs an airing out. But no. Not today. I am just going about my usual week with nothing much going on in my brain that needs a discussion on paper (or screen).

I then wonder…what I should do on such days? Should I still write some fluffy nothings and post because that is what I do? Or should I skip those days and wait for the next day, by when I would surely have something more to talk about?

My fear is that if I take a one-day break, it may turn into multi-day break, and then who knows when (and worse still, if!) I will be back to blog again…an unwarranted fear you say? Maybe, but do I want to risk it? Also I wonder, wont it be harder to come back the next time?

Because to be honest, I love to have a space to air out my thoughts and ideas. I am in love with words. I love to listen, read, and write them. I never want to not have a writing practice, now that I have one in this blog. It feels great to have a space to just pour it out, and try to make the writing sound decent. And my brain feels lighter, less knotted up, after I’ve made sense of my thoughts from having typed them out.

Hopefully this love of writing will keep me going even if I miss a day or two of blogging. And as we know, that as long as we are living our lives, there will always be thoughts and ideas to be shared, and stories to be told. And that means there will always be writing fodder soon enough, even if not every single day.

Which means I should be able to give myself a break if I have nothing to write. But hey, guess what, I wrote all of this without having much to write, and figured out that writing will always have a pull on me. So maybe I don’t need that break after all, unless life feels crazy on certain days.

Because there is always something to write…