The Why

Here is my Truth: I have created this blog while searching for what makes me come alive. While in the midst of an envious and brilliant career (one that comes with titles, recognition, status, access to governmental buildings and political celebrities, immunity and tax exemption), I came to realize that so long as you don’t have passion and drive for living and creating, you cannot but be very mediocre in what you do, and the way in which you do it.

So I quit and today, is the first day, of my new life. I no longer have a professional capacity, I no longer have my access cards to the universe of politico, I no longer have to try and combine dark suits with fancy shirts and ties, before I even have my morning coffee.

And so this is my plan: I shall write and post my entire book on this blog, while still in the process of conceiving, feeling and living it. Chapter after chapter, you can follow it and me on here in a true voyage of exploration. I will write and post it all but the last chapter..and once there, if inspiring, challenging and interesting enough, I shall hope to find a publisher in my path, who would be willing to take on this project and print it out, so that my friends, my family and the world, can read its final chapter, its conclusion.

And if that does not happen, it still wouldn’t really matter because I am not writing to publish. I am writing to write. I am writing so I can remain alive. I am writing because writing is my water, my resort, my oxygen, my kryptonite.


4 Responses to “The Why”

  1. Christopher you are absolutely amazing. I don’t know how you manage to take time out of your very busy work schedule to put this together but everything you do comes from the heart, and everything you do cannot but be perfect. You are a gem.

  2. You’re hot, dead smart, enviously successful, kindhearted, graceful and charismatic now I have to log here to realize you’re also so elegant with written words as well! Christopher Schott you are every girl’s dream and every guy’s best man and she who will capture you will be beyond question the luckiest woman in the world. Annnd she will probably have the cutest babies ever! Keep at it. I love reading you.

  3. Hi Christopher,
    What a terrific site you have . Congratulations! I look forward to visiting again.
    Best wishes
    Maureen

  4. Coincidentally, I took a smillar decision last September to quit my job as a General Manager of a company in my country Sudan. Of course the difference between our positions is very wide, but I think the “human moment” is identical. This is demonstrated in the drive behind the decision and the plan thereafter. I too wanted to attain the oneness of myself and the institution. The income I earn, the prestege I get and the relations I enjoy shaould all come from what I (alone) deliver to mankind during the span of time I am living. I wanted to revive that poet, story wiriter and socially active person that I left on the last day of my university studies and first day of starting my work carrer, though seemingly a successful one.
    However, two months now passed and I couldn’t write any single word. I got stuck and it seems that 35 years of abandoning seek of aspiration and persuing strategic management, leadership styles and all that business depris had puried any talent that I ever had. In a monment of hesitation, I started looking for a job again. It crossed my mind that mishapse in human history like enslavement, exploitation and colonizaion could never have happened if not two poles were present: one having desire and will to do and another passive one having inherent readiness to lose his freedom. This idea, whether valid or not, gave me some energy to resist backing off.
    The name you gave to your twitter email address attracted me to you blog to discover this coincidence. I will continue visiting you blog if not for anything but to recharge my battery for aspiration.

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