Unfortunately, this makes choosing a different topic every day a bit of a challenge. There are some days when I come up with an absolute blank. There are others when I have so many topics, the difficulty is narrowing them down. While I keep a few lists of some of those excess topics, I usually don't feel like writing about them past the day that I took the time to record them.
Sometimes, like a topic I came up with earlier today, the topic most on my mind is too personal. For the one I had been thinking about earlier, it was a personal experience not just for me, but for other people I know. I could not figure out a way to write about it in a way that kept their roles in the story entirely anonymous to them. I did not want them to experience that past trauma should they ever read my posts.
I have also lately tried to keep my posts related to topics that are not being overemphasized by other media. There are times that I feel that I need to address a mainstream idea because ignoring it could be seen as a sign of tacit agreement or because my view on it is strong enough that I want it to be heard, but I don't want to just add to the cacophony for the sake of beating people over the head. Regrettably, my mind is usually dwelling on such topics, making it difficult for me to focus on something else to write about.
There are also topics that just require too much brain-power for me to do them justice. As I tend to write my posts just before I go to bed, I often do not have the energy needed to truly craft a post worthy of these topics. Sadly, this does mean that many excellent ideas have been left unsaid.
The coronavirus has also made this task more difficult. Restricting my activities also restricts my experiences. There has certainly been a monotony carried between many of the days since the first school closure announcement back during spring break. How does one come up with something original when the days themselves seem to bleed together?
Still, I seem to be able to come up with something. Honestly, there were four or five other topics that I was thinking about for today when I decided that the mental process I was going through was worth the post itself. Rather than staring at a blank screen for fifteen minutes to half an hour, I was able to sit right down and write this one out.
Certainly, it's not the most inspiring of posts, but not only have I written plenty about it, I've left even more unsaid.