What's worth writing?

This is my fourth iteration of the Essay-A-Day Challenge. If you do not regularly write & reflect, I commend the practice to you. But after four attempts, I'm beginning to show the wear of a perennially haunting question, "Is this worth writing?"

My previous post title 'Balance vs. Rhythm' revisited an essay I wrote a few years ago. I did not intend to revisit the topic, but I pleasantly discovered a development in my thought. The new essay was more brief, used fewer jargons, and cut through some of the clutter. Unfortunately, I cannot assign this development to any increasing skills in writing. Rather, my threshold of what is worth writing is higher, largely because of the internet.

Here is today's thesis: most content on the internet was not worth writing. This is, unfortunately, not a controversial thesis. The controversy arises when I turn the metric against myself. So, I ask, "Does what I'm writing really matter? Is it worth writing at all?" Meta commentary itself is now a rich market for the internet, so I apologize for venturing anywhere near their territory. Yet the questions still linger. Am I part of the problem? Probably.

Truthfully, I am weary and wary, weary of the abundance of content on the internet and wary of my own space. I burned a quote from St. Augustine in a leather Bible that says, "What does anyone who speaks of you really say?... I believe, and so I will speak." Those dots connect an impossible position, namely, to speak anything truly worth saying about God, and the faith to still attempt, even poorly, to say something worth saying. Augustine, the former rhetorician, then spent the rest of his life living, preaching, and writing about truth, goodness, and beauty.

So, what is worth writing? Perhaps that which attempts to say something true, good, and beautiful, not the true without the beautiful and good, not the good without the beautiful and true, and not the beautiful without the true and good. May the words we write always accord with truth, goodness, and beauty, for that is a task worth attempting.