And so... I'm back

Memory 2,

Perhaps it is the difficulty of logging onto blogger, figuring out what to say, typing it all out. Or it might simply be due to the fact that nobody reads this that I stopped blogging. No matter, no harm done, nobody knows about this blog anyway. Hopefully in the future it will gain some prominence and gain more readership.

Today's memory, although over 2 years later than my 1st (obviously I didn't keep to my promise of 3-4 entries per week), will address what I think of blogs in general.

While it is true that blogs are meant to be read, I think unless the blog has a specific focus, unless it talks about a point of interest that others might find useful or fun to read about, only your friends who know about the blog might actually read it. Even then, their work, school, family, life will dictate most of their time, and they might not get around to your entries. So then, if you are not one of those fancy bloggers who create blogs that are extremely intelligent, funny, or interesting, what is the purpose?

I think there are many different reasons for this. One, you need a method to express yourself. Even though it might not be heard, at least your voice is out there and that feels better. When you are emotionally stressed, when you are physically incapable of solving your problems, it's much better to talk about it. Without someone to talk to, typing it all out on the internet with no sense of right and wrong gives you this freedom of releasing yourself, your thoughts, your stress. You know those journals/diaries you kept as a child (or even keep now)? They serve the same purpose. For you to write about your daily life, the interesting things; For you to piece together the past few days and collect the events together, and figure out the important things perhaps. Blogging is just another way of doing that. Heck, now that I think about it, I should've done this on livejournal, but I like this format =)

Two, it might be that we just want a method of keeping track of our past. I for one have terrible memory, there's no possible way for me to know what happened a long time ago. Blogging gives us a landmark for us to locate ourselves when we are far into the future. Whenever I go through my Instant Messaging history, I find myself chuckling at the things I did before. Whenever I go to my old accounts of various websites I used to go to, a rush of nostalgia hits me and I can't help but spend several hours reminiscing about my past. Hopefully in this thoughtbook, I can find my old memories and have a fun time reading them.

Perhaps I should start blogging again, I'll see. The sound of my fingers hitting the keyboard combined with the feeling of pressing down different strokes and combinations to form letters on the screen is something I can just do forever. Like playing the piano, it gives me a sense of peace and quiet, and calms myself. Afterwards, everything is just better.

-P