Sometimes writers like being anonymous. They seek to write down personal thoughts for no other eyes but their own, locked in a journal with a rubber band around it.
But at some point, most writers want a little encouragement. We hope to find a few likes on a blog, or get a repost or two. But then we discover that a post that was meant to change the world falls flat.
A low point follows and we might believe we write into the void. That once we turn the page or log off, our ideas evaporate.
Take heart. The natural world may provide a back-up option.
Because the biggest void of all will one day record every thought we’ve ever jotted down. It’s a place that’s quite aggressive about cataloging everything that occurs in our universe. The black hole.
Uploading Your Blog to a Black Hole
Black holes never behave. Even now, scientists continue to shift back and forth on what they are. They trade guesses on what happens to data dropped into that swirl of gravity. Can it be extracted again?
Almost anything is possible with as little as we understand these gaping holes in time and space.
Some have postulated that anything that goes in, may someday come tumbling out. Perhaps black holes are just giant hard drives or VCRs set to record infinity.
This is good news because for writers it means there’s a chance that every letter they write (including these you are reading now) is preserved virtually until the end of time.
The information may one day come back out as radiation, but an advanced civilization with the right technology could reassemble your journal. An advanced race may be able to build a port, connect, and search every corner of a singularity with “Black Hole Google.” Imagine a reader sitting down in a coffee shop on the edge of a nebula a billion years from now and contemplating your deepest thoughts.
Journaling Prompt:
What would you say to that reader so far in the future? How would you describe your life in a way that would translate? What frustrations apply now and in the far flung future.
Hope to Fill The Hole In Your Writing
When we jot our thoughts down in our journals or online in a blog, we may feel discouraged and wonder if anyone will ever know what we experienced. Will they know how we feel and see our point?
Even with all the social boosts we get nowadays, journaling and blogging are still lonely pursuits. It’s part of the appeal to some writers. Yet, some of us would like a little recognition. Someone to visit our articles one day and say “I get it” or “I feel that way too.” Or score the ultimate trophy: to change a reader’s mind and heart.
We may feel we upload our thoughts to the darkness and that once we power down, our literary worlds blink out of existence.
But perhaps nature collects a permanent record of every nanosecond that occurs in our universe.
It’s possible those entries can be recovered long after our Sun sets the Earth ablaze, or all heat drips out of the universe. The black hole always spinning, grinding, and perhaps taking great care to document every symbol on a page. Not an empty hole at all.
Writing Unto God or Ourselves
Writers who don’t get signed to million-dollar book deals immediately usually hit a point where they must rationalize their efforts. Assign some meaning. Perhaps their writing is just for themselves, their own sanity.
They may trust that God is listening and decide that’s enough. They must resolve that they don’t write for fame or money or attention. They approach a point where writing is mandatory even if there’s a chance that their works never reach an audience.
It’s a sad thought for some, their point of view, their unique voice going cold. Never once lit by a torch on a cave wall.
But take heart, poets! Our universe is actively backed up on the floppy accretion disk of black holes…to be restored one day. With every galaxy appearing to have a singularity at its center, you can write with confidence in any corner of the cosmos. There’s an auto-save.
Write unto the universe! In this case, quite literally. Write for your own peace of mind. But remember, just because you don’t get a single click on your next Bloganuary post or a New Year New Story Post, it may not be the end of the story. End
Bonus Journaling Prompt: Scientists now listen to the conjoined heartbeats of black holes that have collided. So what happens to the information archived in singularties when they merge? What happens if your thoughts are locked away in one of those black holes? Do they experience recombination? What if several versions of yourself unify? Consider how combining your ideas or your many selves might result in something beautiful. Perhaps a super self without the weaknesses you struggle with.
I write about black holes way too much. Find out what a black hole has in common with the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. Also, take a time-warping trip into a black hole to meet another version of yourself.