To quit or not to quit? (And an observation about Friends)

For the last two weeks I haven't done any blogging because my mum was here visiting. Toward the end of her visit I started trying to thinking of interesting, insightful or worthwhile topics to start blogging with – I didn't come up with any. I started thinking, why even restart? My initial reasons for starting to blog were: to get in the habit of daily writing; to develop my voice; and to get something out there as a writer. I have proven to myself, through other writing projects, that I can work successfully everyday and enjoy it. I feel like writing novels, the form I'm most interested in, is a better way to develop my voice than blogging. Finally, I've begun being paid for freelance writing – admittedly not in the genre I'd prefer – and I have a growing list of publications on my CV.

So why continue blogging if it's serving no purpose and causing frustration and energy to come up with topics and images for each post? Then I realised, another reason I started blogging, whether I was conscious of it or not, is that I like writing about random things that I'm mulling over or that I notice throughout the day in the same way that I kept a journal as a kid. In that case, I should keep blogging but find things to write about that I enjoy and don't cause angst to come up with.

NBC show Friends promotional image

Therefore, tonight I noticed, while I was watching a rerun of Friends, that they referred to women's ability to have multiple orgasms. I'm sure I saw the episode in 1994 or '5 when it originally aired, but I'm sure I had no idea what multiple orgasms were. Twenty years on, things have changed! Many 14 or 15 year-olds are not so innocent, and I've grown up and got married. In fact having watched a few reruns of the early seasons, lately I've noticed that many of the topics and dialogue are quite sexual. I don't remember that aspect of the episodes I saw in my teens, which I think is as it should be.