{"id":1134,"date":"2024-02-26T15:34:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2024-03-05T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T08:17:38","slug":"whats-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/whats-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the point?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a month since I started working<\/a> on my daily writing habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up at 5AM every morning to get some quiet time alone, space to think and put those thoughts to paper. Or at least the digital alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first couple of weeks were a breeze. Excited by the endless possibilities in front of me, I went to bed at night looking forward to that early wake-up call. And when the watch buzzed to let me know that it was time, I was out of bed, up into my chair and typing on the computer almost instantly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it always does, though, that initial jolt of enthusiasm eventually started to fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A full month in, my mindset has changed. Instead of thinking about all the ways writing every single day can change my life, I suddenly find myself questioning the point of doing it at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where I mere weeks ago saw endless opportunity, there’s now only darkness. Where I at first felt like change was flowing through me at the beginning, I can’t find a trace of improvement resulting from the work I’ve put in this past month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, let’s face it, it’s not as if anyone’s reading what I’m writing anyways. So does it even matter if I do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know the answer. I even wrote it down<\/a>. But it’s more than that. It’s the same answer to every piece of doubt I experience when pursuing change and self-improvement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because outcomes are irrelevant.\u00a0Every meaningful change happens within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process is everything. Learn to love the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody said it would be easy. If it was, everyone would do it. (I hope everyone will do it, even if it isn’t easy.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just learn to love the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some days I just find myself asking “what’s the point?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The one in which I question the point of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[86],"tags":[11],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@lars\/111998275145135787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}