Why I Blog....

Quite a few people have sent me messages asking why I blog or decided to start a blog so I figured I’d explain. For one, a lot of people may not know this but I didn’t decide to start a blog because it’s the new cool thing to do. I’ve actually been maintaining a blog online for years now. Since I was 13 or 14. Of course those blogs were not at this url as I’ve hosted it in multiple places over the years, but at least two of them, to my knowledge are still out there for the world wide web to read. If you can find them, feel free to read my thoughts from when I was a teenager as well as when I was in college.

But anyway, for me, blogging was a means of release much like a diary is to a teenaged girl. It was my diary only I didn’t write it out by hand in a book. I typed it on my computer, which made more since btw because I was always on it, and it’s quicker for me to type something then to write it out by hand. I like being able to look back at old entries and seeing what I was thinking in a different frame of mind; when I was a different person at a different stage in my life.

Also, from each blog my format and the types of entries I typed changed. When I was a teenager it was a lot of mindless babble about things that were important to me at the time, mostly school events, friends, when I was mad at my mother, etc. When I was in college, I went through a lot of changes and the entries were more contemplative than anything. They were also pretty long because they involved a lot of personal thoughts, reasoning and my accounts of things that happened. This layout isn’t really conducive to typing long entries. They would fill up the entire first page which is why I’ve kept them pretty short and sweet.

Also most of my entries here are pretty superficial meaning they’re just random thoughts off the top of my head, nothing I’ve thought long and hard about. Nothing too personal. I wish blogger had the feature like livejournal where you could post an entry to your blog but you could lock it and make it personal or only allow certain viewers on your list to see it. I like to see all my entries together. Blogger makes you make a separate blog and lock the whole thing. But I like bloggers layout better than livejournal even though it doesn’t give me the space for long entries like LJ. Ahhh well… Thanks for stopping by and reading my thoughts. Hope to read yours in the future. Toodles…