I truly lack the energy to write a Daily Clot post right now.
That same drive that I’ve always had isn’t lost, but my internal furnace of ambition certainly feels like it’s nearly extinguished.
By what? I’m not exactly sure.
Maybe I’m just burned out on exposing my deepest thoughts for everyone to read about. It does feel like a bit too much at times—almost as if my mind is naked and on display.
I’m getting pretty close to a full year of Daily Clot posts. I can’t recall whether or not I thought The Daily Clot would last this long when I created it. Knowing me, when I first started The Daily Clot on February 5th of this year (if I remember correctly), I probably expected to be faithful to it for about a month, maybe 2 months at most, before abandoning it and moving on to some other endeavor.
Why did I keep pushing, then?
I’m really not sure. It’s lost on me as to why I haven’t moved on to something else by now.
I think I’ve gone over a hump, in a sense. I mean, at this point, I’m deeper into The Daily Clot than many people might realize. The total word count at the time of my writing this is nearly the equivalent of around a 320-page novel. That’s pretty big.
I feel like I’m so deep at this point that I sort of NEED to keep going. I’ve learned quite a bit about myself by forcing myself to write something every day. Obviously, this post isn’t typical of The Daily Clot, as I’m tending more towards sentimentalism than comedy, for which I apologize for profusely (but also, not really—it’s my Daily Clot, and I’ll write about whatever I want…deal with it).
Now that this brief intermission is coming to a conclusion, let me just say this (though I don’t need your permission to say anything, because I’m the one in the driver’s seat): I’m looking forward to seeing where this journey takes us. Who knows what we’ll learn? The places that we’ll travel to in my future Daily Clot posts are unexplored territories for me as well, so I stand to learn just as much from this experience as all of you.
Let’s see where this takes us.
Buckle up.
Until next time,
Michael J. Erickson, CEO & Co-Founder
