I've come back home and hence lost interest on my blog? Is that so? Yes and no. I just can't come up with anything interesting to write about right now. For example: This isn't really interesting, is it?
Any foreign life is always more interesting than your own. That's why you're reading this, isn't it? But you see, I'm living my own life now and it's really boring. There's simply nothing to write about.
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4 comments:
i'm not entirely sure that the cause is returning to "normal life." could it be a matter of how to focus your writing?
what i mean is: when you were away and living in the states, there was much to see and much to write because of a common theme: the fact that everything was new and a little weird. it focused your thoughts and made you write something you found interesting.
it's hard to find central themes in one's life, because we've lived it for so long, that it doesn't seem to have any meaning or focus.
if only as an example, i often find it easier to write in my math blog than in the other one. it's not because mathematics is really that interesting (even though it is) but because i spend hours doing math, per day, and i can describe mathematics in terms of mathematicians.
for most people, the mathematics we do are sequences of meaningless symbols, and we will never be able to explain it, or make it interesting.
on the other hand, the process of me or you, doing mathematics, is something we can try to explain. there can be good days and bad days, days when you think something should work though you can't explain why but it persists and persists ..
.. sorry. today was one of those days.
anyways, i don't know if this comment helped. hope it works out, though.
Yes, it's a question of focus. It's also a question of being in the right mode: The mode that makes you realize things that you want to write about. But it is harder to keep ones eyes open and really see stuff when everything you see is so familiar. Anyway, it's a great exercice!
I'm not sure though if I agree with you about explaining math to non-mathematicians. Yes, we'll naver be able to explain precicely what we do as researchers, but I think we should be able to explain what math is all about and make it interesting.
Foreign life also becomes less interesting after five years or so. In 2000-2001 I was sending long emails back to Russia practically every day; now I am lucky if I find something to write about once a week. .. Perhaps I should have been looking for jobs in countries other than the States, just for the sake of change. :)
Change is always good, I think. It makes you realize things that you wouldn't necessaryly otherwise learn.
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