Reason for action
I question my motivation for action quite a bit… “am I justified”, “what is the reason”, “what will this lead to”, “what is the historical perspective of the event”; you get the idea, I question allot. What this has meant is that I don’t blog as often as I would like. I mean what the hell is this? What form of communication allows a person to write to their hearts content, for an audience that conceivably could encompass every man, woman, and child on the face of the planet. Blogging is such a powerful tool, and yet it has seemed to me that it also demands to be taken lightly. I mean, who the hell wants to read an endless drone of seriousness? So I find my self stuck. I want to take blogging lightly and create a blog that don’t suck, but I am also terrified of the fact that my short little blurbs become part of the global media stage. Damn. I think that ultimately I face the problem of not knowing my audience. Who reads this? No one? every one? What should be my motivation to write a simple blog? I tend to feel like I should say that I do this for myself, but I think that if I were really only doing this for myself I would have no incentive to publish and I would not be doing a blog. SO I must be doing this for other people, and if I am doing this for other people I feel like such a self-indulgent solipsist I find I don’t do entires at all, there fore I can’t not do my Blog for other people. I am stuck. And now you know why this is the only entry I have made in the past two months.
well, I guess I’m your audience today. your questioning is well received by this guy. it’d be a strange day for me if I didn’t find myself questioning a lot of the things I do, especially my writing. writing can’t be done completely in seriousness. my motto is: only take seriously those people who don’t take themselves too seriously.
Thom,
To be honest, I don’t blog. But that’s maybe just because I don’t know, and maybe I wouldn’t have an audience at all. You, at the very least, have had two in your audience. But, from reading your blog, I think it’s important to blog. We need to see the blog on your blog because really we have secret blog too that we never publish, and we’re embarrassed about it, and it just helps to identify with blog. I am undergoing the task of writing a memoir to be passed or not passed for my master’s thesis. I find it to be somewhat like Blog, only I take it very seriously, as well I should. I think you should write for yourself, using the words that come to your mind. But by writing for yourself, as one human, you will be writing for other humans too who may have something in common with you, and thus you have thought and written for them too. Or maybe they never thought anything of the sort, and they can learn from you. Or maybe they never thought anything of the sort, or never thought you would think anything of the sort, and then they hate you.
All in all, it’s worthwhile, don’t you think?
Just kidding about the hating you thing.
Blog on and more often.
Sorry about you and Christy breaking up because I know you’re sad, but you seem to be doing well, and you are on your way to the next leg of your journey. You go west, Christy goes east, and the world is round. Don’t worry.