My name is Jeremiah Bennet. I am a Senior Writer at an Internet Marketing company. I live in a decent enough apartment which I share with my computers and books. My entire life I have been writing for other people. From High School until now, I have sold my words, or more accurately my mind, to the highest bidder. My siblings all call me a sell-out. Over the years I have called them various names as well, including unemployed.
I have often marveled at how people can find the time to write, as a hobby. I have never really made the time for myself to write for fun, or for any other reason than to make a paycheck. My perception of the universe in this regard has been that one either has no career, an unfulfilled career, or an amazingly successful career in order to have the time available to write for their own pleasure. Now that I am able to delegate work to others, I am more and more finding myself wandering around my apartment like a broken robot that knows there are tasks to accomplish but cannot quite complete the orders. There seems to be some type of internal urging towards some uncompleted tasks which sends me slowly and aimlessly bouncing around my apartment. Sometimes I am able to grasp a hold of some personal clarity. It was during one of these moments of amazing insight when I realized that one does not need to have no career, an unfulfilled career, or to be amazingly successful in their career in order to have the time to write for their own joy. My new perception of the universe, in this regard, is that one either has no career, an unfulfilled career, a mildly successful career or better, in order to have the time available to write for their own pleasure.
As I look back on this introductory blog entry, I am thinking that I would not hire it’s author, and I am pleased. This is my release, my sanity, my place to write for me. If I want to toss syntax and clarity out the window, then I will do exactly that, whenever and however I desire. Let’s just hope these bad habits stay here, and do not breach the divide between personal and professional.
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