7 Jan 2011
My books arrived today
A strange feeling
Quite unexpectedly the first box of my new books arrived in the mail today.
There is something both exciting and a little scary as I hold my thoughts in my hand.
It is exciting because I have finally published my first book, which has been something I had hoped I might do for many years.
It is scary because those pages contain my thoughts.
As that book is picked up and read, people are encountering part of me.
I am reminded of the little book Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? and its basic premise was that I am afraid to tell you who I am because that’s all I’ve got, and if you don’t like that then I can do nothing else.
Writing a book feels a bit like I have put myself out there. It feels a vulnerable place to be. I don’t think its a bad thing to be vulnerable, its just what it is.
I know some people won’t like what I have written and that’s ok. Its ok for us to be different, in fact its important.
So I’m both scared and excited to see what happens when people start to engage with my thoughts.
My hope is that the book is an encouragement for those that read it, an also just a little bit challenging.
Ultimately though its just a book, and it won’t change the world, but it is a book I wrote, and I’ve never been able to say that before!
Matt! Congratulations!!! i am looking forward to reading the book. I love that time passes, life happens and we change, what i think now is not what i thought last year and it will be different in a year’s time. i’m having an interesting experience at the moment, realised that i had lost the soft copy of my book and now am transcribing it! i wrote it in 2004 and its exciting to see how i have changed and grown in the last few years – i am excited to be doing a re-write now! on ya Matt!
claire bankole
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