When I began this blog I didn't really give much thought to who might read it. At first I hadn't even given the URL out to my parents, and then as time passed they had it and my mum is my faithful reader and I enjoy knowing that many of my posts bring a smile to her face. Months passed and gradually a person here, a person there knew I had a blog and wanted the URL, eventually I posted it on myspace, and I know that others out in cyberspace have dropped on by to read a post or two. Recently I've acquired new readers, and I didn't necessarily plan for the expansion of readers, and for them and the others that have stopped by to see a part of me that I know, and my family knows, but very few others know. This isn't because I've purposely kept "me" a secret, merely because I am somewhat circumspect inregards to who gets that close. Now you might think that writing a blog for all to read, certainly doesn't fit with the idea of keeping some things a "mystery" but it is more than that. I write my blog entries to express my thoughts, to process my life, to record a funny story, to develop a discipline to write consistently. I blog because I enjoy it.
For many years I've kept a diary, a journal of my life - through the years I've filled pages for single days, and let months go by without writing a single line. What I found though that for a time my diary entries would be full of my angst in life, be full of the lows, and not so much the joys, and mundane, and highs, or even the quite stable and peaceful solid ground. In writing this blog I don't necessarily write what is "in my heart" but what I think when you write, when you put your thoughts to paper you cannot help but express your heart, for me at least.
My blog for me captures moments in time that might oft be forgot - moments of discovery, moments of laughter, moments of pure sillyness, moments of truth and revelation. I write to see life, I write to express life.
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