I really don't know what I want to say to you. The past few days and hours that proceeded this moment in front of my screen have been plagued by a mix of writer's block and my commitment to not waste anyone else's time. What I can say to you is that, more than anything, I want to be transparent to the people that I talk to and the only way for me to do that for you is to say that I lack any idea of what this article should be about.

Of course as you are, or if you are reading this, it probably seems counterintuitive for a writer to write about not knowing what to write about. But I want to be honest with you all and say that I am pretty much all right with that. A written work should be something that is more than just a string of words, facts or opinions. Written works, well the truly important ones, are designed to extend beyond the biases of the author and even the words that they use so that a reader can spend the time to read it and deem it has an important part of their day by the final punctuation mark. With that in mind, I'd hate to take up your time with the some fake life lessons that I learned while planting lavender plants in a field, or the touching story of a bonfire that I had yesterday which exemplifies the importance of friends.

Now, I can't say that my life has recently been devoid of excitement or anything cool, but I just don't see a reason to write about it just for the sake of making a click-bait article about something that I don't find incredibly worth reading about. You all have your own life and certainly don't need some 20-year-old op-ed writer to narrate the wonderful things that they may have done and lecture you about the lessons that they learned along the way. Has any of that happened to me? Well of course it has but at the moment, I am truly struggling as to what I can possibly say to you that could possibly have any kind of importance to your day.

Never have I known what people want to hear and/or read; I can only know what I care about. And right now, the things that I really care about are not translating to this forum. But I refuse to sit here and try to make something that has some poignant message for the sake of being poignant. Doing that would be dishonest and destroy any chance of making an article that is worth your time. So I won't lie to you and say that I pulled away some important lessons that will be held in my heart for the rest of my days.