Never made it past the draft
And this post won't make it past the draft either. More than a month ago, I committed to writing one post a week for four weeks, but it didn't happen.
Dec 12, 2025
The idea of talking about how I don't finish things is not strong enough for a post. Besides, I don't have enough material to tell a story, something profound to connect with people. I don't have enough content or a clear structure to develop it. In short, it's not perfect, so I will never publish this.
This is simply another day trying to write. It's funny because this issue of not finishing things doesn't happen to me with everything in life, not at all. It never happened to me during development, or when planning releases, or when preparing a presentation at work. But why?
I have never been a good writer; perhaps I have never tried hard enough. I have a multitude of half-written posts, but they are simply drafts. My main problem with them is that they are not good enough; I have a thousand other excuses, but the truth is I don't accept doing mediocre things. And here comes the question: what is mediocre? The key answer is: it depends.
Until now, I had never considered the difference between the things I finish and the ones I always leave halfway.
A manager I admire once told me that the same thing happened to him with writing, and that is the main reason why he wrote a trilogy (which I haven't read yet). Yes, three books, and he finished them precisely because he wanted to prove to himself that he was capable of doing it; at that moment, he had a very clear sense of why he was writing it.
That is exactly the difference I had never found between those things I finish and those I don't: I finish the ones that have a greater meaning, the ones for which I understand why I do them, what I want to achieve.
The why is also what differentiates perfect things from mediocre ones, because everything depends on the purpose. My perspective of "perfect" is different for giving a speech at a wedding than for writing a post on LinkedIn. And here is my question: why do I write on a blog?
After the Emotional Safari, one of my best posts, having raised the quality had blocked me from doing the rest for fear of not measuring up. But my whys are still there: to connect, inspire, and learn how to write. And these whys have pushed me to create this post.