Deep Thoughts by Jack Camel #8
It's been a while...so much for that idea...but here's a deep thought, anyway.
I looked over at my nav bar this evening and realized that I am into my FIFTH month of blogging. Where does the time go? I mean, I remember looking at other people's blogs and thinking, "wow, they've been blogging forever" and look at me now!
What is it about blogging that is so startlingly alluring? Sometimes I will think about what I want to write in my blog long before I write it. How is it different from a journal...which I could never manage to keep up. I think the difference is connotative: I don't see my blog as a record or as confidante. I see it as a sounding board. A place where I can be myself with no responsibilities to anyone. I can be self-indulgent, self-absorbed, self-deprecating, self-conscious...whatever.
I mean it's so different from a journal because anyone can read it. And no one can. Because no one who reads it (God willing) knows me personally, or at least didn't know me pre-blog. So rather than living in fear that someday someone will read my journal and somehow that validates me. Granted I fear that one day someone I know personally will encounter it and turn my life upside down, but still, this is sooo much better than writing in a journal. Almost as if a journal was a way of internalizing everything. There was no validation, no attention, no reward.
I can see now why group therapy works....happy blogging to all!
I looked over at my nav bar this evening and realized that I am into my FIFTH month of blogging. Where does the time go? I mean, I remember looking at other people's blogs and thinking, "wow, they've been blogging forever" and look at me now!
What is it about blogging that is so startlingly alluring? Sometimes I will think about what I want to write in my blog long before I write it. How is it different from a journal...which I could never manage to keep up. I think the difference is connotative: I don't see my blog as a record or as confidante. I see it as a sounding board. A place where I can be myself with no responsibilities to anyone. I can be self-indulgent, self-absorbed, self-deprecating, self-conscious...whatever.
I mean it's so different from a journal because anyone can read it. And no one can. Because no one who reads it (God willing) knows me personally, or at least didn't know me pre-blog. So rather than living in fear that someday someone will read my journal and somehow that validates me. Granted I fear that one day someone I know personally will encounter it and turn my life upside down, but still, this is sooo much better than writing in a journal. Almost as if a journal was a way of internalizing everything. There was no validation, no attention, no reward.
I can see now why group therapy works....happy blogging to all!
posted by Camel at 11:52 p.m.
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