I read a blog post that was linked to a facebook status that my sister Karen commented on yesterday. It talked about the narcissism and other negative aspects of why we post what we post on facebook, and basically ended with the idea that 99% of everyone doesn't give a crap about what you really think or feel, so quit posting your inane and annoying status updates. I will admit that I found some of the examples quite amusing, and could see parallels to some of the things I have posted, but didn't agree with what the blogger felt was the impetus for people to post those things.
Then this morning I pulled up my blog for the first time in a long time. It was a little depressing. I suppose I could say that I'm just busy, or that I don't post because I can't think of anything, but neither of those would be true statements. I don't know how many times I have heard something on the radio, or read something from a news website, or just had a random thought, and I said to myself that I should blog about that, as I had so many ideas running through my mind. So why don't I? Its a good question. As most of the things I don't do in my life, I'm sure laziness plays a significant factor. However, after having come and read through a couple posts here and seeing the voluminous responses all of my many followers have posted in discussion (sarcasm thick here), I realized that maybe that other blog poster was more correct than I would like to admit. Maybe I started this blog in the beginning as a sort of desire for affirmation of myself. It makes a lot of sense. Here are my thoughts, come, discuss them. Maybe that is narcissistic.
I'd like to change my way of looking at it. I'd like to say it will become a place for me to just put down my thoughts, but lets be honest, that would be a journal.
