Hey there guys, let’s keep it light.
Been doing a lot of reading lately but not books, novels, or the usual sort that I find myself getting indulged with. I’ve been reading blogs by other people, everyday for the past couple of weeks, which is kinda odd for a bookworm like me.
Why am I reading blogs now?
First, it will stir your interest to know how many things a person can actually talk about. I’ve been following two blogs recently but unfortunately on a different site. Both people are not passionate writers, it’s not that I’m judging or anything, it just shows. They use their blog as their public journal. One writes about anything that happens under the sun. Everything he sees, everything that he happened to have an opinion on, he writes about. Most of his blogs contain profane words and vulgar criticism but at least he’s not afraid to let people know what’s really going through his mind. I think he blogs mainly because he’s the timid kind of guy who doesn’t really talk a lot in public so whatever he can’t say through his mouth, he says so in writing. The second one is a girl so what do you expect? Girls are made out of 99% emotion, and I admit that it’s true. She writes about everything that she feels, every memory that suddenly crosses her mind, every good or bad emotion that tickles her heart. She lays it all out there, no inhibitions. I think she does that mainly to let the guy (whom she loves) know about her feelings indirectly. I mean, there’s no use sugar-coating things ’cause I wasn’t born yesterday and I know what her every statement meant. Both of them blog because it’s the only way for them to let their thoughts and feelings be known by others. To let other people know that hey, I’m no wallflower.
Second, I’ve been following sensei’s blog. And by sensei, I mean sir steno’s blog. It’s on the same site so you could go ahead and find it here. Now for him, it’s an entirely different ball game. He writes because it is his passion. He writes because he knows that his thoughts would raise awareness and will therefore keep people better informed about the things that’s going on around us. He’s a journalist and a really good one. He’s been writing far longer than me and you’ll feel his wisdom and maturity in this barely touched form of art every time he blogs. And each time I read one of his works, I feel like there’s still a lot of things for me to know. I feel like the possibilities are endless when you’re a writer.
Third, well let’s talk about me and why I blog. I blog because this is the only thing that gets me as close to being a writer as I originally wanted. I blog because I want to feel like my thoughts matter, I want to feel like I matter as a person. I write about everything as well but unlike others, I don’t put everything out there. I leave room for some charade and fact finding. I usually fuzz people’s minds a little bit, you know make them exert effort on trying to find out what I really meant. I’ve always loved mysteries and investigation so I guess that’s the reason why it kind of goes hand in hand when I write. Experience taught me well and my failures on the way motivated me to get better. Writing is not something that I do, it’s an extension of my soul. And that has always been true.
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