hey, look. i did have something to say after all.

i wasn't going to write anything today. no reason, other than i just don't have anything to say. (when did that ever stop you, ace?) (shut up, you!) i sat down here anyway, to write anything or to write nothing to you. here goes.

so i try to blog every day, try to keep up that habit, even when the going is rough, nothing to say, copying down wikipedia entries about estonia. begs the question - when is a habit good and when is it detrimental? daily blogging, writing something every day, in and of itself doesn't sound bad. not like, say, smoking. doing something with your mind each day, stretching or challenging the ol' grey matter, or even just simply using it for something other than a television sponge - that's good, right? inherently good, i mean. thus, insofar as daily blogging uses the brain, daily blogging is good.

but what if i dread it? is that good? is it good to do something i don't enjoy or that hangs over my head, like that cloud that follows little charlie brown around, raining on me, boo hoo. well, it's good to eat broccoli, even if you don't enjoy it. good for your body. right?

something you don't enjoy can be good for your body. eating a food that you don't like the taste of doesn't make the food any less nutritious. exercising even if you don't enjoy exercising will still afford some benefit to your muscles and your cardiovascular system and your nerves and all. but, will doing a mental exercise you don't enjoy benefit your mind?

if you don't enjoy math, and you do it anyway, learn it, master some skills, maybe even achieve a certain level of proficiency, is that good? i'd say a healthy body is inherently good so doing things to maintain body health is good, even if you don't like those things. but, mental health isn't gained merely through exercising your mind. mental health is more complicated and enjoyment of what you're doing plays a part. contentment is a component of mental health.

isn't it?