The title of this text is a quote from the “Writing Advice” post.
I wrote the “Writing Advice” text on the 25th of March, 2024. The text “I still haven’t written anything groundbreaking and profound.” I wrote on the 23rd of March, 2025. It’s been one year since I wrote, and I still haven’t written anything deep. Has something changed throughout the year? No. I still feel I haven’t written anything special. Does it mean that I will give up? Of course, I won’t give up. I will be trying to write something groundbreaking and profound as long as I live, or my mental health will let me do it. In 2013, I read almost all of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novels (+ his letters and “Writer’s Diaries”). Between 09.2023 and the end of 2024, I read Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.”
Did the mentioned geniuses write something profound on each page of their artworks?
No, they did not. Still, they left many crucial insights to posterity. They were only humans. Undoubtedly, they knew it was impossible to write something profound with each sentence. I believe they also believed in the process of creation. Perhaps I will never write anything special to others. It is one of the options. The other thing is that perhaps everything I write was already written not only by the geniuses mentioned above but also by millions of other people.
Perhaps I try to be unique, but the truth is that I am unique, like everyone else. Luckily, I do not know what the future holds. Perhaps someone someday will read all my texts and state that I was a genius. I hope it won’t happen during my lifetime, as I do not seek fame and recognition among my contemporaries. If you write, my Dear Friend, I keep my fingers crossed for your groundbreaking writings.
