What don't I see?

Blogging: An online conversation with no one and everyone

I must confess a certain dislike of instances when people blog for the sake of blogging, or even when they blog about blogging.
Actually, what aggravates me most is when someone posts simply to say that they have nothing to say. Not only is it patently not true, it's also rather pointless...
(This is why there are often such long times between posting on this blog and the other...I simply have nothing to say that I don't mind sharing with the entire cyber-world.)
Only slightly less disliked are the posts that discuss why someone blogs. If you write a post about why you write about your life on your blog, wouldn't your time be better spent writing about your life?
This disclaimer comes, now, to the ironic point of saying that this is almost, I repeat, almost one of those sorts of posts. I am deeply sorry if anyone reading this is anything like me.


I was thinking today about why some people think that they can't write. Most often, their excuse is that they lack subject matter. I believe this is hogwash. Anyone with a decent brain and an operable set of five sense (or maybe even four or three, depends on what they are) is capable of writing.  I seems to me that subject matter is all around us.  In a way, there is enough subject matter between my hairy toes and my hairy head to make for a lifetime of inspiration for a blog.  Please don't think I'm just being conceited, either.  Every human is living a story that is worth telling, because it is a true story.

Equally often heard is, "I don't have time." This is a more valid complaint, but still, pretty lame.  We have time for what we make time for.  More simply, in the words of some wise housewife, "Where there's a will, there's a way."  Simple enough, right?  But when there are so many other things to do, so many things that take up our time... why should we worry about telling our story to the five people who might eventually read our blog?  

Now this is the main point...  From my point of view, blogging, at least  the kind of blogging that I do (meaning, non-political, non-societal, and really mostly unimportant to all but those who know me), really isn't for an audience.  I mean, it does make it more fun when you know that people read what you write, and when they respond to it, but really, blogging is like a conversation with no one, and with everyone.  (Just now the thought crossed my mind that this post really couldn't make less sense...)  For me, it's a way of processing my thoughts and feelings in public without having to worry about interruptions.  Essentially, I'm telling my story, and because I'm putting it in writing, I have the time to figure out some of the plot and foreshadowing, and maybe, once in a while, the moral.

So...tell your story to yourself, and the world, so you can figure out what it means, so you can be so excited that you can't wait for the next episode.

How's that for a moral?  :-)