Many (many) weeks ago, I wrote a post titled βMigraineβs Secret Sauceβ and concluded by complaining about how many people on social media were calling themselves βcontent creatorsβ. As I saw it, the world was already full of content, AI could make content, no one had time to read so much content, and what we really needed was something other than more content to help us heal and be happyβ¦ At the very end of the post, I declared that I did NOT want to be a content creator, and I would aim instead to be a kindness creator, or a community creator, or some other word that started with the βckβ sound.
Since then, my soap-box has developed a wobbleβ¦
Recently, I realized words can have two meanings. βInvalidβ, for example, can mean a βsick personβ or imply that something is βnull and voidβ β one interpretation feels like an affirmation of my life with chronic migraine, the other sounds like an insult.
Not long after, it occurred to me β the word βcontentβ ALSO has two meanings.
There is the content I originally wrote about: all the material that fills something up, the text, images, and ideas⦠just as a box can be filled up with contents, so too a blog is filled with content.
BUT the other meaning of the word content, is to be at peace, to be restful, comfortable β satisfied.
AH NOW β that changes everything!
If I was to be a βcontent creatorβ of the second sort, well then, I would be someone who was aiding readers find ways to be more at ease within their environment… and within themselvesβ¦ my blogposts would become a conduit to potential rest and relaxationβ¦
I believe my migraine slipped from occasional to chronic (almost constant) as a result of my nervous system shifting from rest-and-digest (where it ought to be most of the time) and sliding instead into fight-and-flight mode (which is designed to be used only for short bursts in an emergency).
Want to guess which version of my vagus nerve βcomfortable-contentβ would reside in?
Rest-and-digest-repair-restore… also known as the realm of relaxation!
When I was younger, I used to imagine that it was a sign of personal integrity to take a stand, to be bold and brave and defend your position no matter whatβ¦ these days I see this sort of behavior as being closer to stubbornness than superiority. The more we read, the more we learn, the more we realize we donβt know everythingβ¦ canβt know everythingβ¦ and the more it seems inevitable that we will change our mindsβ¦ and in some circumstances, it is a sign of open-minded growth that we SHOULD change our minds.
Thatβs not to say I want to be a weathervane, and spin willy-nilly this-way-that with all the prevailing trends, fads and fashionsβ¦ but I am big enough to stand corrected.
I was wrong to not want to be a content creator – because instead of a (material-)content creator I DREAM of being a (comfort-)content creator… generating comfort for me and for you!
Take care taking care, comfortably, Linda x
The Mindful Migraine 
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