Returning to the Life of Public Personal Blogging
I decided today to make this personal blog public, as it has always been when I first started it in 2005 through Xanga and Multiply. I came across a very inspirational blog by American country singers Rory and his incredible late wife, Joey. The blog is "This Life I Live" and you can tell by how Mr. Rory writes that he is deeply and truly loved by an incredible woman and the people around him, in the way he writes about them, which surely also reflects his wonderful "Cowboy" character.
By this, I got inspired to write again in my personal blog. Not just write anything that could interest anyone on the net, but just write what my heart intends to express! In freedom, in hope, and in the faith that it would heal me and also help others realize that exposing ourselves in public through writing online is liberating and can't always be a bad effect on our image. Now that I find the meaning of life, "image" is something that I shouldn't be too careful about. I'm not running for office or any image-dependent work. Anyway, I'm saying this because I've been writing in a structured manner in my travel blog. And that I've realized that it may be the reason why I don't finish one article fast enough or write that much nowadays, considering I travelled to so many places for the past three years and missed on writing about them. So do you hear me out? <wink> <wink>
After I read Mr.Rory's soul-uplifting blog (and ofcourse, I can't help tearing up on every article he wrote), I went back to this personal blog that I have. I scrolled down to check on articles that I can add up to my travel blog. Came across "Cold-windy-beautiful-edinburgh-scotland" and said to myself "Alas! I have something to transfer to spicytrekker :)" But then I began to read each and every old blog I have written 2010, then 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 until I reached my very first entry in 2005 as a college student "Life or something like it". It was a short three liner blog entry. Then I thought to my myself, I began writing as if it is my personal diary. I did not care who will be reading it as I'm a low profile city girl. No one's going to take interest. I have no other outlet for my feelings. I have few friends. Ok, I like writing, I'd better start a blog. That for sure was my thought back then.
Nowadays, not all bloggers have the same purpose of just belting out their feelings and experiences online. Mostly now it is for ads that give money or a way to showcase how great or (vise versa) tragic their life is. Some use it for PR, a link to their work, search for someone to date, to fool and take revenge or extort money from or what have you. Eversince I saw how many servers or hardware are maintained to keep our posts and emails online and at bay, my behavior of writing and posting is as careful as possible. I begin to be cautious that every post should be of sense and of help. But actually now I realized there are more posts out there wasting every megabyte.
So what am I ranting about? No I am just inspired. :) I was laughing earlier reading my old blogs and how carelessly I comment, replied on comments like an innocent teen. And I'm 30 now, I know better.
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