I am completely uninspired this week. There has been nothing interesting or inspirational happen to me, and as a result, I'm completely unsure of what I want this article to be about.
As an Odyssey writer that has to produce content every week, don't you get that way too? Where your mind is so occupied with other things that you don't know what to even talk about? Or nothing interesting has happened this summer that you want to discuss?
Like, okay, yesterday a kid walked in front of my car while I was driving through campus. Sure, I could write an article about how rude it is to walk in front of someone's car while they're driving and are forced to slam down on the breaks, but who would want to read about that? And what would I even title it? Or I could write about the women that went through my cashier line the other day that had really gorgeous purple hair and all we did was talk about how much we hate social media. But what would I even write about? How unique I thought she was, maybe, or how much I hate social media (because lately, I do).
Oh, and this week, I learned what a "pangram" is. It's the term for a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet once. For instance, everyone knows "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", but there are literally at least ten more, such as "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow". This, I thought, was super cool. There's actually a term for these types of sentences and I had absolutely no idea that that was a thing. It's wild.
Or I could have written about how thankful I am that my mom is in existence, but I already wrote a whole letter dedicated to her months ago. I mean, she deserves all of the letters in the world. She does my laundry and packs my lunch for work for God's sake, and I think that's some click-worthy content. Or how awesome my dad is. Like tonight we spent like, five minutes shoving my mom's place-mats under the door of the closet in the kitchen because I decided it would be funny to lock myself in it for a little while (don't ask questions, okay).
Now, we're supposed to produce good and eye-catching content. I get that. But at the end of the day, I think that this would be an article that I would click on. Why, you ask? Because I think that an article about nothing is a really good idea (now that I think about it anyway). So, I hope that this article about nothing has at least semi-inspired you to write about SOMETHING. And proves that you can write an article about nothing and it could still be at least a little bit interesting.
So here, ladies and gentlemen and aliens, is my article about literally nothing. Enjoy.
