Why I Blog
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Anyway, I've been asked this question a couple times over the, lemme check, heh cool - I really didn't plan this - EXACTLY seven years I've been doing this blog (first post).
I started this blog because I thought it would be cool. Yeah, that was about the only reason. I didn't really think I had anything to say to the world, I really didn't expect hundreds - or even dozens - of people to flock to my little corner of the web. I just thought this would be a little window on my life.
Here's why I keep doing it:
1. I can keep track of some of the things that are important to me. From church stuff to family stuff to little insights into who I am - when I reread posts I remember what led to the writing. And I can read a post like this and be transported back to another moment in my life. Or posts like this that maybe nobody else cares about but I want to remember...
2. I come back here to go to other people's sites. Okay, that might sound stupid, but I use my blog as my gateway to Aaron's blog, Michael's two blogs, Seth Godin's, well, basically the top ten or twelve links on the right side there. Yeah, I could organize some bookmarks - but this was way easier :) I have to update that, too, 'cause there's a few other sites I go to regularly that I need to put on the list...
3. A blog post gives me the opportunity to think through things sometimes in ways that I don't always have the time or space to do otherwise. I like to think about creativity and leadership and church stuff and with my schedule I don't have a lot of places to talk through those things. So I get to here. Sometimes it makes more sense than other times...but that's the web...
4. I get to share what I care about - and only what I care about. Nobody puts any limits on what goes into this blog - except me and the Holy Spirit (and I don't always listen as well as I should to the Holy Spirit). This is where I can write about what I care about - Star Wars - nerd stuff - going to Catalyst - reading a book - something Rachel says - a moment with Lori - a stupid sign I saw. This is similar to #1, I know, but what I mean here is just that the content here is all me. It really is kind of a window into my life - good, bad, boring. And the beauty of it is - you don't have to read the post if you don't care about it (and now that Google has changed the way it does the "dashboard" I know how infrequently this little blog gets accessed).
There's probably other reasons. It's funny - I'm not as good at reflecting as I am at doing. So, I'm not as good at telling you why I'm doing what I'm doing...as I am at, um, doing what I'm doing... Does that even make sense? Somebody said to me that I'd make a good existentialist - if they weren't all whacked out, that is :) I guess that's...um...true? :)
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