Embracing the Blog

I'm in a fickle relationship with the internet. One day I love it and want to share my writing with it while I read about other people sharing their writing with it. The next day I delete everything I wrote and pull out a pen and paper, determined to catalog my thoughts the old fashioned way. But inevitably the shiny new notebook I've bought myself falls by the wayside, and I'm back perusing the internet again. Well this time, I'm foolishly telling myself, it'll be different. This time, I'm embracing the blog.

I've always liked the idea of blogs. People with specific interests and knowledge create spaces to share all of that with people like me, who are experts in nothing. And people who have nothing specific to say are shockingly open and provide great accounts of everything from family fights to news about Justin Bieber. Seeing as I have neither specific knowledge to share with the world or the courage to detail every moment of my life on the world wide web, I was always hesitant to jump on the blog bandwagon. I didn't think my desire to write and lack of defined subject matter combined to form anything deserving a place in the blogosphere. But my fear of boring the internet and my affinity for writing on a regular basis just couldn't get along. So I'm trying to reconsider the blog.

The stack of half-empty journals filling my bookshelf have shown me that I'm never going to keep the traditional diary I've tried hundreds of times to start. And the millions of 13-year-old girls who start blogs every day have shown me that there's room on the internet for everyone. These two realizations have led me here. So I've created this, a space to play. I'm embracing the internet, embracing the blog, and seeing what kind of bizarre result I can produce when I force myself to sit down and write regularly.