One step at a time

It is a cliché, of course, but these phrases are clichés because they hold real meaning, just as some classical music, or any other genre of music, for example, is popular because it is well liked, or that there is something about it that attracts people's attention enough for it to become popular. Anyway, one step at a time, however unoriginal it may be, is the title of my current post.

We all have our difficulties and we all manage them, or not, in our own way. I am struggling to find my way, and that seems to be my way, but one step (or more) at a time, forwards, backwards and/or sideways (to the left and or to the right) I am taking steps to find my way. And today, late at night, I have agreed on a name for my next website, to be revealed just as soon as I decide whether to continue with this one, or create another one instead. 

Decisions, decisions and some would call this a middle class problem (I would agree) but, in the words of a phrase I definitely do not like, usually used by people with whom I have worked, "we are where we are" (which however betrays an Hegelian concept) I am not going to sabotage my 'progress' by feeling guilty, firstly, over the class status of a problem such as whether to have one or two websites and, secondly, whether I should be using a phrase that I have explicitly said I dislike however much I might console myself with its Hegelian undercurrents. 

For now, I am just pleased to have agreed a name for my next website and this is my one step, forwards, backwards and/or sideways, for the time being, which I hope will sustain me until my next one. 

Postscript: Reading a cover story in Culture by Dan Cairns, on Leonard Cohen, following the release of his latest album, which, for me, is one of the best albums to which I have ever listened to date, I am struck by Cohen's riposte to the suggestion that he is the "epitome of the tortured artist". Cohen is said to have said "There are human beings being tortured. Let us not trivialise the unspeakable horror by adding songwriting to that category". Indeed.