Four hundred words about nothing, anything, and everything

After school last Friday, I was in deep thought on what to write four hundred words about. At first I decided on writing about dance. At the moment, it sounded like a good topic, but once I actually started writing about it I realized that I already had too much written about myself on my blog, even though the blog is supposed to be mine and about me, it just seemed like I spent too much time writing about me, also, I thought, who cares?, because really who does care how long I have been doing ballet or what grade of cecchetti I’m in?

My next idea was to write about my family. After about five minutes, I realized that there is really no way I could squeeze four hundred words out of I have parents, a sister, a brother, and a dog. I decided that that idea was not a good one. If you are going to write something, you want it to be worth reading, and so far, I have not come up with that read-worthy idea. So again, I thought about what I should write about.

Then, I thought I had it, the golden idea, the read-worthy one, it was about summer. I thought long and hard then about what I did over the summer and came up with practically nothing. So, for the third consecutive time, it was back to the drawing board.

My next idea was not one that I was very proud of, but it was an idea. I was going to write about my favorite subject in school, history. I would write about how me and my love for history go back to when I was about four years old. I thought about how to write this in a way that wouldn’t put people to sleep, but that was not an option. Anyway I would have written that would have been exceedingly boring to practically anyone who doesn’t love learning about history, or me. Once again I brought up to myself the fact that nobody really cares. Ugh, I thought. I was out of ideas.

For the next few days, I would be in almost constant thought on what to write four hundred words about. It was pain-staking, until I finally came up with it, the real winner, the one you have just read. I wrote about writing the four hundred word page.