Why Create a Website?

Ultimately, this website may have no viewers, no readers, and no visitors. Fortunately, that’s absolutely fine. It selfishly functions for my own sake. Why?

Firstly, it is just public enough. Irritatingly so. I consciously decided to publish this website without a single functional page at the outset. If you find comfort in fine detail and organising things exactly to your taste, this will create a small itch that your perfectionist self can’t help but to scratch. Because there’s always a chance someone visits the website. If they do, you’re not going to want them to discover a lonesome page of dead-end links and empty space. Given that the website is under my name, that now matters. Should it? Probably not. I’m almost certain nobody cares. But for me, it creates just enough discomfort to get the ball rolling. And with that, the hardest part has already been taken care of—making a start.

I want to cultivate a writing practice. A commitment to externalising my thoughts. A commitment to showing up each day without an end goal in mind and just allowing bad ideas and poorly constructed sentences to spew out onto a blank canvas. I firmly believe that the best ideas are the product of countless bad ideas. It might just be me, but I reckon I have plenty of bad ideas throughout the day. Perhaps a few decent ones too. Our minds are impossibly unique sorcerers of story and thought. Yet, these brilliant moments are always fleeting and rarely captured.

I struggle to believe that I can understand anything without first understanding myself. So, that’s why this website exists. A quest for understanding. Through my own lens is the only way in which I see the world. I’m striving to look behind the lens and in doing so, sharpen its focus, test its constraints, and remove the tint.