Hmmm... kinda cool.
I stumbled on to the most interesting website today. Just thought I would share. This got me thinking about how everyone has a story. Which then led me to consider the reasons I love to blog. (Sorry I sometimes write in thought sequence...)
1. It's much easier to write a blog about your personal experiences, thoughts, and what's new just one time, than it is to write virtually the same thing over and over to everyone you keep in touch with. (Case in point, writing thank you's after a big event...) Plus, it's more personal than writing a blanket email and blind carbon copying it to everyone you know... I mean, not like I've ever done that before, I've just heard... *looks around sheepishly, clears throat* ...Moving on...
2. Writing is therapy. There's nothing better than sorting through life's issues with the feeling that you're 'sending out a cosmic question into the void' as Meg Ryan says in You've Got Mail. You can just let your thoughts drift and simmer a bit.
3. Only the people who are genuinely interested in what you're up to, or want to hear your brain stop by; those friends and strangers who truly care about you. (Or the friends and strangers who lead incredibly lame lives and somehow get a thrill out of reading about the adventures of others... again, don't know for myself, just speculating...)
4. You can find new people that you would never otherwise have 'met' along the way and then salivate over they're talent for word play, ability to make mundane tasks fun to read, or their ease at being completely and enviably transparent about their lives. These people amaze me. I salute you, honestly.
5. Admit it, 'Blog' is just plain fun to say.
6. It's a conversation that's literally inner dialogue. If we talked to all of our friends this way, we would be considered odd, but on here - completely acceptable.
7. You can vent, rant, rave, and talk things through without being interrupted (I think this goes along with the whole therapy thing).
8. Every average Joe can feel like a novelist.
9. You can convert a full website page into a modern day wallet photo album if you want. (In my brain I picture this old lady pulling out the plastic insert from her change purse as it tumbles, picture by picture down to the floor. March that lady over to a scanner and let her go nuts!)
10. Last but not least... because You're here!
1. It's much easier to write a blog about your personal experiences, thoughts, and what's new just one time, than it is to write virtually the same thing over and over to everyone you keep in touch with. (Case in point, writing thank you's after a big event...) Plus, it's more personal than writing a blanket email and blind carbon copying it to everyone you know... I mean, not like I've ever done that before, I've just heard... *looks around sheepishly, clears throat* ...Moving on...
2. Writing is therapy. There's nothing better than sorting through life's issues with the feeling that you're 'sending out a cosmic question into the void' as Meg Ryan says in You've Got Mail. You can just let your thoughts drift and simmer a bit.
3. Only the people who are genuinely interested in what you're up to, or want to hear your brain stop by; those friends and strangers who truly care about you. (Or the friends and strangers who lead incredibly lame lives and somehow get a thrill out of reading about the adventures of others... again, don't know for myself, just speculating...)
4. You can find new people that you would never otherwise have 'met' along the way and then salivate over they're talent for word play, ability to make mundane tasks fun to read, or their ease at being completely and enviably transparent about their lives. These people amaze me. I salute you, honestly.
5. Admit it, 'Blog' is just plain fun to say.
6. It's a conversation that's literally inner dialogue. If we talked to all of our friends this way, we would be considered odd, but on here - completely acceptable.
7. You can vent, rant, rave, and talk things through without being interrupted (I think this goes along with the whole therapy thing).
8. Every average Joe can feel like a novelist.
9. You can convert a full website page into a modern day wallet photo album if you want. (In my brain I picture this old lady pulling out the plastic insert from her change purse as it tumbles, picture by picture down to the floor. March that lady over to a scanner and let her go nuts!)
10. Last but not least... because You're here!
posted by Amber | 11:06 PM
1 Comments:
If you like stuff like that, you should check out Found magazine. It's pretty hard to find, but there's a book with pretty much the same stuff that's in the magazine. You can buy the book at amazon.com or wherever.
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