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Mohammad macbook committed Mar 28, 2024
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const posts = [
{
title: 'The Shelf',
url: 'the-shelf',
subtitle: '',
date: '2024-03',
},
{
title: 'Life is like an apple',
url: 'apple',
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
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<script>
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function gtag() {
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}
gtag('js', new Date())
gtag('config', 'G-JXDFZEKF37', { transport_type: 'beacon' })
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<title>The Shelf</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../base.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div id="description-container" class="subcontainer">
<div class="item-title">The Shelf</div>
<div class="item-description item-subtitle">

<p>
Two years ago, I created this website with the hopes that it will one day be a digital
collection of my intellectual meanderings, enthusiasms, creations, and stories.
</p>
<p>
I called it “the shelf”, to make it a place for my collectibles,
valuables, and the little things that remind me of my memories. <br>
I made this website to look like a bookshelf too.
There I would put my notes from my favorite books, people who
inspired me, aka my heroes, my projects, stories, and writings.
</p>
<img src="/assets/shelf-screenshot.png" alt="Screenshot of the old Shelf">
<p>
I was (over-)envisioning, some would call it dreaming, the ways to express different aspects of myself.
</p>
<p>
In my head, I was visualizing a few years down the road where I have hundreds of post written
in this blog and built multiple projects.
I have some of my ideas realized, and I have an audience who read those and get
inspired to do the same. (joke’s on me)
</p>
<p>
It’s a few years down the road now and none of those visions are real.
</p>
<p>
I was dreaming big but doing little.
</p>
<p>
My initial motivation for this blog was to write things that are inherently personal.
</p>
<p>
I didn’t want to be a news channel, or a blog that regurgitates others’ words.
</p>
<p>
I wanted to write and share all those things that make me, me.
</p>
<p>
The thing is, I’ve been collecting my thoughts for a while, but sharing them always feels scary and difficult.
</p>
<p>
I feel this pressure in my gut when I want to share anything slightly personal, as if I could get hurt by allowing others to read them.
</p>
<p>
I didn’t want this website to be up there with nothing in it.
So I ended up sharing random momentary nerdy interests that no one cares about,
<a href="/grahams-number">like other people explaining large numbers</a>.
</p>
<p>
It doesn’t really need to be a blog post.
It could simply be a tweet like,
“Check out this dude explaining graham’s number for 15 minutes so that he can tell a yo mama joke: LINK”
</p>
<p>
Posts like these are some kind of, umm, justifications so that I can tell myself
that I've written some stuff in here, that I’ve done something.
</p>
<p>
And the actual things that I want to say, things that I want to share and are important to me remain unheard.
</p>
<p>
They live only in my head.
</p>
<p>
But an idea or a thought is worth nothing if it only lives in your head.
</p>
<p>
It feels good to imagine yourself being interesting.
</p>
<p>
But then again, It’s only in your head. Not real.
</p>
<p>
I’m not bashing my younger self for the things he didn’t do, I’m just acknowledging that it’s difficult.
Creating that entire digital personal shelf that I envisioned takes energy, focus, and above all, courage.
</p>
<p>
I’ve encountered dozens of blogs and personal websites where the header
hints you that who built it had high hopes and big dreams in their mind,
but when I scroll down, it’s a ghost town.
</p>
<p>
I was hoping writing here would help me get to know me better.
Instead, I started faking and deceiving myself.
</p>
<p>
I don't know how long it'll take till I have the courage to share what's really me.
But I know that this post is a start.
</p>
<hr>
<p>
Shoutout to Pete from "Do you even blog" who inspired me <a href="https://doyouevenblog.com/zook/#elementor-toc__heading-anchor-5">to do something gutsy</a>.
</p>
<!-- <img src="SCREENSHOT OF THAT PART OF BLOG POST SAYING TO DO SOMETHING GUTSY" alt=""> -->

</div>
</div>
<a class="item-subtitle" href="/">Back to Homepage</a>
</div>
</body>
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