Why I blog?
Northern Voice is coming up, and I might attend it this year, if I can get my schedule to co-operate with me. Darren was asking on his site why people blog (I intend to fill out his survey tomorrow) but it got me to thinking about my reasons for blogging my life.
I get asked this question a lot. Blogging is a big part of how I communicate with friends and family, especially over the past few years. In more than a small way, it’s my support system, and a part of my community. The majority of my friends blog as well, and I find it a great way to gain insight into their lives as well as offer a window into mine. In the past 10 years, this site (and my first blog before I migrated to this URL) has offered me a wonderful way to formulate many new friendships.
Ultimately, I blog to connect; This site offers me a means to reach out when I sometimes don’t have time to do so on a more personal level with my loved ones.
If you own a blog, why do you write there? Is it more for cathartic reasons, strictly business-related content, to connect as I do, or another reason?
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Thanks for the linkage!
Done!
Got here via http://www.tanyaloca.com – I blog “to remember” – both in an emo way and in a “store the stuff that goes through my head” way.
Thanks for dropping by and the link. Maybe I’ll see you there.
I blog to connect with amazing people, to learn from people who know something I don’t (that’s everyone), and to share my insights.
I blog to capture a moment, a feeling, to put into words those elusive feelings that are trapped within my skull. I blog for no reason, for every reason, from the most insignificant things to the most imperative. I blog to to keep my typing skills up, to laugh at everything, to find a way to connect, to amuse, to perceive. I blog observe the world around me, to document, to record the feel of rain on my eyelashes or the icy fingers of the wind slide up my sleeve. I blog because there is an element of mystery that runs through life, something untouchable, like the Gods or the afterlife or the great cosmic void. I blog to acknowledge that all of us have space here, in this mainly uncensored community; that our community of voices reflects everyone, those who are in love, in pain, ill, happy, downtrodden, lost, forgotten, because we all feel these things in life, emotions are what unites–a myriad of emotion that radiates down the line and perhaps resonates with someone when they most need it.
Well, I don’t know if I should answer here. It would be a spoiler since I answered Darren.
Nice Post.
That was well said. Always appreciate your indepth views. Keep up the great work!
John