I’m just gonna write with the objective of having some sort of point come out of the writing. I’ve noticed that, in the time of “writer’s block,” it’s good to just write.

I’ve also noticed that every person who has ever attempted daily blogging writes a post about how they’re overcoming writer’s block by just writing. My apologies.

This is an interesting thing, though.

I’ve often been about to do something, notice everyone else does the same thing, and, for the sake of Holy Individualism, choose not to do the thing. This is pretty stupid and it’s not individualism at all.

Individualism, as defined by me, is living precisely how I would live if other people had no impact on my actions whatsoever. It is not specifically trying to do things that separate from a crowd. A true individual is someone who does whatever they want.

Someone who does exactly what the crowd does because they feel like it is more of an individual than someone who does the opposite of the crowd because they are specifically trying to be an individual. The second person’s actions are still dictated by the crowd—just not as directly.

One of my favorite quotes: “There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.” Gilbert Chesterton said that.

I like Individualism and want to be an individual, but in my pursuit it has been easy to intentionally do things to avoid what the crowd does.

“Hipster” is a pop definition.

If I didn’t publish this blog post, which began as a common post of “here’s how I’m going to write when I’m stuck and can’t write,” I’d be doing it only because I didn’t want to be like others who make posts like that. Stupid.