X and Z

Looking back over all the blogs I have written since 2009, I found that there are no blog titles starting with either an ‘X’ or a ‘Z’.

The ‘X-words’ have a more logical reason for not starting any blog-title up to now; the dictionary gives a short list of ‘X-words’, from X-ray to X-rated and from xenophobic, to xerox. Xerox being the most interesting word ~ at least from my perspective ~ as it starts and ends with an ‘X’…
For the ‘Z-words’ this is not likely to be the reason to not have been in a blog title. Looking it up in the dictionary is certainly long enough and the words starting with a ‘Z’ interesting enough to work with.
And yet, it never happened.

So what is up with that?

As I write mostly about things that come up in my life or in my direct environment, it may just be the ‘choice of words’. In the most literal sense. Clearly neither the ‘X’, nor the ‘Z’ start words I often use.

Another way of looking at it is to observe it as an ‘omen’. Something that we may see or that happens to us, which is then read as a symbol or a dream rather than as the factual situation.
As an omen, the fact that I haven’t used the last two letters of the alphabet may tell that I’m not done writing yet! I have not gotten to the ‘Z’ as of yet. Or even to the ‘X’…

Finally, having discovered this, it does present a challenge as well. A challenge to get with it and to make the alphabetical list complete. Not in order to stop writing blog-posts, but rather to ‘have’ the full list.

And this last one shows one of the many reasons we may take things on…
Sometimes it is because we have to. It may be because it is something that tickles our fancy. Something that is interesting in the news, in the weather, in nature, or in our particular walk on our path at that moment.
And then again, sometimes we do something just because we can…

The reality is that we don’t really need any reason at all to do or not to do something. At least no reason that lies outside of ourselves. Ultimately the only reason we should act on, is an inner reason. And whatever the reason, we shouldn’t have to defend them to anybody; no matter how futile that reason may seem to them.

So here it is; a post with a title that starts with an ‘X’!
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