I'm late to the game. I'm the first to admit it. Blogging, micro-blogging, mlogging, whatever kind of blogging you embark on, the journey is one I haven't been able to understand - and not that I do, but, what the hell, here I go.
My reason for not engaging, apart from time being an issue, is that I've not been able to find the reason someone might be interested in what it is I have to say - about whatever it is I have to say anything about.
Does this make my life uninteresting, I don't think so, but does it make it interesting to someone else...? I'm not sure about the answer to this one. So, to me, in essence, it take a pretty good sense of self, or ego, to put yourself out there thinking anyone's interested.
So, putting that aside - for the moment - why else?
Perhaps it's cathartic. To practice phraseology and putting words around thoughts and thoughts on paper, and maintaining that for future generations to find and summarily dismiss.
Aha! I can recount all that I've learned for current members of Gaulzettiville to read and understand in the later years.
Which brings us back to sense of self and/or ego. I must feel that what I have to say, to share, to impart, is worthwhile enough to spend time to input and post.
So, with that, let's just say apparently as I hit PUBLISH POST, I have just enough ego to leave the porch and journey forth.
Hmm, modern day Shades of Gray? : )
ReplyDeletegood for you joe...
ReplyDeletei don't think it's ego (in your case anyway) to put thoughts into words (or keystrokes)... it's not like you're standing on a streetcorner, shouting out for the world to LISTEN TO ME! {or, better (or, worse), (ever see the movie A Scanner Darkly? actually, now i realize it's in Waking Dream, but it's the same guy: there's a scene with Alex Jones, driving around, broadcasting his thoughts over a loudspeaker attached to his car, as he drives around, explaining his version of reality to, well, no one in particular; it wouldn't make sense since you'd only catch a glimpse - or is that a visual portion? what would the sound portion be? - of sound and then he'd be gone, down the block, around the corner, up the street, and you'd only hear two or three words... now THAT'S the act of an ego-ist... keep writing.... (and keep editing; that's the key part, really...)