Your relevance to the cosmos

I've had Neil deGrasse Tyson's Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier on my reading list for quite some time. While I still haven't cracked open the space genius' critique on NASA, I did manage to watch this short 3 minute video of Tyson reminding us just how large our cosmos really is:

"There’s a star that we call the Sun and that’s kind of average and there’s a hundred billion other stars in a galaxy. And our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they’re the center of everything ends up shrinking. And for some people they might even find it depressing, I assert that if you were depressed after learning and being exposed to the perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego. You thought more highly of yourself than in fact the circumstances deserved."

Talker's Block

I've been blogging here for nearly a year with various peaks and valleys of frequency.  

The content of these writings? A mixture of one part self reflection and one part shares of other internet musings (videos, other blogs, snippets).  At start, I was posting regularly at least once a week if not twice. The longest I've gone between posts is two months.

The cause for these less frequent postings is likely because of time and writer's block. 

But in a recent book talk for Mitch Joel's Ctrl Alt Delete, Seth Godin thwarted the entire notion of writer's block by noting that "you can always just write how you talk." The term "writer's block" itself was only first coined in 1947 by Edmund Bergler. And considering that the vast majority of writing is non-fiction based (bloggers, personal journals, I guess you could also lump in Facebook messages and posts here), Godin is probably right. For the sole purpose of getting the first draft or the first arrangement of words out, it's helpful to simply speak on the page. 

No one wakes up in the morning and thinks to themselves "You know what? Today, I think I have talker's block."