Is this hypocrisy?

Today I started reading the second of my summer reading books, "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser. Within the first ten pages I knew it would soon become my bible. (cheers to cliches!) The most eye opening lesson the book has taught me thus far is how unnecessary so many of the words I write are. Zinsser, of course, was referring to superfluous adjectives and repetitive adverbs that fill mediocre prose. Of the sentences I write, how many of them simply repeat a previous thought? He stressed not to keep a meaningless thought simply because it sounds beautiful. Let the ideas themselves emulate beauty.

And this got me thinking, besides the adjectives and adverbs and irrelevant prepositions, how many complete thoughts have I written down that just don't matter? Certainly the content of this blog is a start. These thoughts I'm blogging have either been said before or are useless to society. Just like calling the skyscraper "tall" or the child "young" is a wast of space, so too are most of my thoughts. This blog is an adjective. It is not DOING anything or TAKING us anywhere; it just fills space. Yet, I still feel the need to write these thoughts down and you, whoever you are, still feel the need to read them. But why? Maybe, as Zinsser warns, it is for the sake of beauty. But maybe, just maybe, I keep writing and you keep reading in hopes of someday finding a verb.