Still Writing for AdSense
Posted on 21 December 2006 by Daniel Dessinger
"You're doing this all wrong," he tells me.
"What am I supposed to do?" I ask. "How could I do it any better? It's not like anyone is going to read this crap anyway!"
"Slow down for a second... take a deep breath... there you go. Now imagine each blog you write as a valuable part of your life. The precious time you spend writing a blog and thinking about blogs is time you will never live through again. Picture yourself looking back at today from your fifties. How will you feel then about the time you spend now? Will you wish you could go back and redo it all? Will you see that you spent too much time being fake? I wonder."
"I'm not being fake! I might not share the deepest parts of my heart with complete strangers, but that doesn't make me a fake! I'm selective."
"Call it whatever you want. The truth is that you are still focused on the masses. You want to please the masses so you can make money, but what you keep ignoring is the simple truth: the masses will approve of your work when it stands on its own merit. And your work will stand on it's own merit when you focus on finding the message within and sharing it rather than finding what topics people are interested in and limiting yourself to them."
"Maybe you're right... but it's hard to know. I sit here and wonder if it's all a waste of time. I wonder if I'm going to grow old and waste away because I've focused on the wrong things. I lose sleep at night wondering about that. But I don't get any answers."
"I wouldn't think so. well, it's for you to decide. Do what you will; just remember that you will never be 29 again. You will never see this day again. Each moment you breathe, it is a joyous and unprecedented moment and it is also a most grievous and unsettling realization. The finality of Time allows for no second chances. There are no 'redos'. You can continue to write for AdSense if you want, but I think you will see that writing to express the beauty within is rich and satisfying enough."
"You could be right... I'll think about it."
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