This is in response to the prompt to include the following 3 words: teeth, hammer, blooms.
I have put myself on a path to realizing a long-held dream: writing a book on a topic close to my heart—designing a hotel from everyone's perspective. To keep myself motivated, I have been sharing the journey as a book-in-progress on my other blog, A Slice of Art and Design.
Like most dreams worth pursuing, this one is not happening easily. I am fighting tooth and nail to make it happen.
Perhaps because I am immersed in the subject, I have started believing that everyone—including you—is secretly curious about how a hotel is designed and is a potential reader of my book.
As the manuscript slowly blooms, a different emotion has begun to surface—anxiety.
Not many people seem to be reading my work.
On some days, I become sad and grumpy. A mere 2,000 readers visit the blog each month. I find myself wondering whether the effort is worth it. Who am I writing for? Does anybody really care?
Then, on better days, I look at the same number differently.
Two thousand people.
I am incredibly fortunate that two thousand individuals choose to spend a few minutes reading something that originated as a thought in my mind.
Before the internet, those thoughts would probably have remained trapped in a diary. After I departed this planet, the diary itself might have been discarded by someone clearing a shelf-I hammer this idea into my own head.
Instead, those thoughts now travel farther than I ever imagined. Some may be forgotten. A few may be remembered. One or two might even inspire someone.
And perhaps that is reason enough to continue.
The book will arrive when it is ready. Until then, I will keep writing, keep sharing, and keep believing that everyone in this world is a little curious about hotel design.
If you happen to be one of them, I would be grateful if you became the bee on the bud of this book, carrying its link from flower to flower and helping it bloom.
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