It’s hard to come up with things to write these days.  I even debated to challenge myself to give up the internet for a year, document it with photos, and post them all at the end.  I was gently reminded that I need the internet for college, for email and such.  Crazy idea.

It would be cool though, to have total peace from online connectivity, and simply live in the world as it was 10 years ago.  To have dead silence.  Silence is so hard to find nowadays. When I feel like I need to be alone, there’s almost nowhere to go.  There’s nowhere to run where the internet or communication of any kind can’t find you.  Space travel doesn’t sound so bad.

All I want is a new project to work on that consumes my time.  When I have free time, I am tempted to watch Netflix or just read articles in my Google Reader, I’ll never use my mind in any way.  Last summer, I spent my time constantly working on photos for my 365 project, but now, I have a couple smaller projects, but no humungous challenge.  Going dark on the internet for a year sounds like the challenge of a lifetime, one that I’m not sure I could even pull off.  My goal for the next few days is to find another challenge, one that makes me have to adjust my life in some way, one that I can document through photos, and one that I can look back on with a feeling of accomplishment.

Now that I have done the 365 project, I want to go a step above that, but in a different way.  In other words, I don’t want to do a 2 year project of the same thing, because I’ve experienced what that takes already.  I want to make another major life change around my next project, because it forces me to do better work and it makes it feel more meaningful.