Her first post

I have been spending more time on youtube these days and when a video makes me think a thought, I act on it. 

I watched an interview Linda Ikeji granted, where she talked about starting her blog and I got curious about the first words she ever wrote. So I searched. 

After reading a few posts, I thought to myself "Damn. These posts were so badly written. She has come a very long way in writing better blog stories and word formatting. Look how honest and open she is. It's obvious she is writing it as she is thinking it".

Then I looked through and saw that there were lots of comments on her first post, mostly by people like me, who over the years, had been curious and checked it out. The posts after that didn't seem to have a lot of traction but she kept posting. 

I thought about how many times I had become demotivated, allowed my schedule stop me or been just plain lazy to write something. I thought about all the incomplete thoughts I had had, the ones I never even started to work on and the ones I had written but never posted. I thought about secrets I try to hide that stop me from writing because I am afraid to say them. I thought about the times I didn't have the guts to say what I truly thought and felt and so I didn't write, because I was afraid. 

I thought about a lot of things. 

But the most important one was the thought that said "you still have the password to your blogger account. sign in" And so I did. And I wrote this. 

So, as much as it is easy for me to say "I do not know if I would particularly like Linda Ikeji if I met her", it is also easy for me to say "Thank you Linda, for being you from the very beginning". 

There  are different kinds of true inspiration to be found in her story and today, I think I just found mine.