I really don’t have the time to be implementing another blog, for, as it is, I don’t really have time to maintain the other two blogs, but I wanted to “check out” WordPress, since I am not satisfied with one of the blogs I currently maintain.
I do not intend to limit this blog to any particular venue or specific topic, but rather intend for this one to replace the one I’ve kept on MySpace. And so, I’ll start this blog with my view on blogging and put a little something on this almost vacant page.
One thing I’ve discovered is that most of those who complain about bloggers and blogs or criticize those of us who blog, don’t or can’t blog for themselves. There are as many reasons to blog as there are the number of people who blog. I find it almost ridiculous for others to complain about blogs when it is within their power to either read something or not. I find myself questioning the IQ levels of those who get themselves “worked up” over something they read in someone’s blog when they didn’t have to read the blog in the first place. I am reminded of a situation where someone didn’t like what I was writing in my blog. I was “ordered” to stop writing about my chosen topic. And when I did not comply, it was said to me, “Then I won’t read your blog anymore.” Despite the unreasonable ultimatum, I continued with my blog, and my readers read the story to its conclusion, and that is as simple as it can get. If you don’t like what you’re reading … don’t read it.
I tend to write more than I read, but I’ve always been that way. Still, blogs are useful things … for the one reading the blog, and for the one who writes it. Some blogs take us to far away places, or teach us things, or connect us to something or someone in ways never possible before. And for those who write … it’s not always about saying something. Sometimes it’s as simple as “talking out loud”, but through the keyboard. Sometimes it can be as complicated as exorcising a demon. And sometimes it can be as abstract as making right what had been wronged.
We form friendships and connections through blogs, in an ambiguous sort of way … the author and reader never meeting face-to-face. Perhaps the bond between author and reader is better forged through an exchange of comments on the blog, or perhaps, in most cases, the connection is not shared, as the author seldom knows who his/her readers are. This reminds me of a post I read recently about a woman who died, leaving behind an audience who will miss her blog and her writings. In cases like this, the blogger, once removed, leaves voids in the minds and hearts of others.
Perhaps the most popular fascination of blogging is its ability to entertain, again, both for the reader and the writer, and I believe many would agree with me that there are a lot of entertaining blogs out there. Sometimes someone’s life is simply entertaining, and that makes for an effortless task of blogging and an entertaining read. Personally, I enjoy the touching stories … those that tug at our heart-strings, even if as uneventful as the TV add of that little four-year-old girl editing a picture of her pet fish. I want to be entertained, I want to laugh, to cry … to see how someone else makes it through the day. And if I’m not in the mood, I simply just don’t navigate towards the blogs.
So, to those of you who don’t have the desire to write about your thoughts or experiences, or care to teach us something or entertain us, but who sit back and make sweeping generalizations about those of us who do write …
you should really consider taking that chip off your shoulder and “stick it where the sun don’t shine”.
Kheri's Thoughts 