Return to Blogs: A Short Essay

It's been a while, but I think I really want to get back into doing
this [blogging] regularly ^^ Tammi and I have been talking and I reminisced "Man, we should go back to blogging, we were damn good at it" And we were, I say with as little boastful pride as possible =3 For a few months, I ran both of our original blog sites through a blog-trafficking site, and we got so many comments and even gained some regular readers back in the day!

Maybe I'll do that again, maybe not. Blogging fulfills different purposes for different people. Generally, it's simply a way to get things off our chest, like a diary. Unlike a diary, however, you're putting your writing out for the world to see. And that's why a lot of people put blogging down ("If it's truly private, DON'T put it on the Internet "). True to an extent, but as Nathan put it once to me, "there are just some things you're always a bit more comfortable telling a complete stranger." And it's true, and the whole world knows it's true, hence the global blogging phenomenon.

I don't think I'm any more or less special than the next child of the blog generation. I write to get things off my chest, issues, emotions, dreams, goals. I'll occasionally ninja my blog to put something sporadic and random (See my "Soapbox Declaration" post) but I'll always write something with substance if I can possibly help it. And that's the thing too, when I blog, I find it VERY hard to just write for me, myself and I. This by no means is restricted to my blog writing. In anything I pen, I have the need to write like the whole world could possibly see it themselves, see it, read it, critique it, and hopefully take something away with them. Maybe that's why I do it, the best writers have their readers take something away with them after a piece.

Have you taken something away, audience of strangers, you who read countless blogs like mine? Perhaps I have persuaded you to return here once more in the future, perhaps not. No matter, it is simply my humble hope that you do.

Because, you really ain't seen nothing yet :)

~Vickie