Write About Everything Because The Human Condition is What is Important

Are posts here on read supposed to be about our everyday lives? I guess in a way they can be. I mean, why not, right? Not everything we post here needs to be something profound, or even useful. Sometimes there are just simple things we can talk about and hit the publish button, and of course there are many posts here that do just that.

We do not have to write War and Peace in order to enjoy an audience. It's just not the nature of the site. Although, certainly more profound things are certainly published here on a regular basis.

The beauty of a place like read is that we can talk about just about anything it is that we want to talk about. If readers are interested they will let us know through their interactions and their tips.

Rusty may have a say in it as well of course.

Besides, sometimes when we do publish things that just chronicle our day, or things happening in our lives, it can be useful in another way. It lets the readers take a peek into who we are, and what we do, and maybe sometimes offers even a little perspective on what makes us tick when we write an opinion or provide something more "valuable."

It lets us all get to know each other a little bit better. It lets us know we are all just real people, with real lives.

I know that when I think about what I should write about here, because we tend to call these "articles," that I tend to be thinking a bit more deeply about what is written and try to provide something of value that can even drive in some traffic for the site from organic click-throughs.

But does it all have to be that? A site like this and the posts we write are as much a blog as anything else, and blogs are mostly just like a diary of sorts.

So, I say post away. Whatever it is your fancy. Whatever it is you want to write about. Polished or not. Just write. Today I can tell you something mundane and tomorrow I can tell you something profound. If I don't like the mundane thing I told you I can just simply delete it and move on.

It is not like I am trying to provide samples for U.S. World Report to pay me $1000 for an in-depth piece about the state of the supply chain you know. I am just doing my thing, being me, talking to you, and sharing my thoughts, my hopes and dreams, my aspirations, and my opinions on matters that are important to me.

Like many other places I have written on the Internet, part of the beauty of all of it is that I can write about something or nothing, and at the end of the day it is still worth writing about.

Each month my feed is filled with "reports." That is, "how much I made through crypto" and other things. I read "random thoughts," or "random questions." All of it, regardless of whether or not it is profound, is still interesting.

It is a window into the world of what others are doing, and what their own goals and aspirations are. It is an insight into the goals and aspirations and endeavors of all who share their lives here.

And I find all of it interesting.

One of the things that I have found over the years, writing on the Internet, as opposed to writing for magazines and newspapers and other places in other formats and forums, is that what you get from sites like this is the real world. Real people. Real situations. Real things.

From all walks of life. From all parts of the world. From all cultures.

And the one thing that stands out for me the most is that what you get ultimately is that the human condition is pretty much the same no matter what part of the world you happen to live in, and what your culture's ideology happens to be.

We are all just people.

We all get up in the morning and decide how our day will go. We all do normal things like have a cup of coffee or tea, or take a poop (sorry, it's just reality). We all go to work and pay bills and try to get ahead and succeed. We all want to succeed. We all want what is best for our children, and want a world where they can thrive and enjoy all that life has to offer. We all enjoy the beauty of nature and what God has provided us in this great world we live in...

Even when we happen to live in places where life is tougher and where regimes and governments dictate to us how our lives should be.

Are posts here on read supposed to be about our daily lives? I think in some way actually that when we do post about that, no matter what part of the world we are writing from, it reminds us of how human we are despite our separation in many ways, either through miles or through cultures.

What you had for dinner, or the fact that you wrote about rocking your kid on your knee, or an experience you had with a bad customer service experience, in many ways brings us all together in ways never imaginable. We can see that no matter where we are from, no matter what country we live in, no matter what governments we live under...

We are all people. Just people. Going through life. Living. Making things work. It helps us, the regular folks, to understand one another better. It removes the propaganda sometimes fed to us that people in Russia are this way, and people in Pakistan are that way, and people in America are another way.

When we post about our everyday lives we get to see real people. Real lives. Real circumstances and real situations. We hear it all from the "horse's mouth" so to speak.

What this does, in the end, is bring all people, in all parts of the world, with all different cultures, closer than we have ever been before.

And for that reason I say post away as I said before. Because I want to know you are like me, and I am like you, and together we are all the same person ultimately despite our subtle differences.

You can separate me by continents, oceans, cultures, and governments. But the one thing you cannot separate me from is that we are just people. And we are all more alike than we ever thought we might be.

A lot of these everyday life posts are a stark reminder of that, and I think have enormous value to all of us as a whole. Because governments may try to set us all apart and against each other. But at the end of the day we are one thing and one thing only.

Human beings.

And what we share together reminds us of that. This is perhaps the most valuable post we can ever make. Just us. What we do. How we live. What brings us joy and happiness. What makes us smile and frown. What makes life worth living. What makes us get up in the morning and look forward to it.

And most importantly, what makes us all the same despite our differences.

Lead image courtesy of Porwest. My simple life, my simple truck, in my simple driveway, in front of my simple house.