I feel like sort of a hypocrite for making one of these. Not that I've ever publicly admonished blogging or don't read any blogs, but I've just never been one for the whole "sharing" phenomenon that's taken over the world (seemingly) due to the rise of social networking services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the like. I have both a twitter account and a facebook page, but more often than not I find myself debating other whether to deactivate one, the other, or both. I've found twitter to be a combination of comically useless and relentlessly boring, but I still have an account, just because, I guess. Facebook on the other hand tends to serve a purpose from time to time. Whether it be semi-creepily seeing what friends-gone-by have been up to, or making an event to organize a fantasy football league, the 'book has proved useful enough times for me to be able to justify keeping my account active, at least for the time being. But back to the point--why start a blog? To be simple and plain about it: I want to work on my writing. Despite being a massive procrastinator who always came close to missing deadlines (a few of which were missed, and badly), writing papers was more or less an enjoyable experience for me in college. Now that I've graduated and have a job that requires absolutely no writing, I've decided it's a skill that I'd rather not have whittle away. I recently got my writing fix by writing weekly updates for my 10 man fantasy football league, but after 17 or so posts (of which maybe 12 were read by possibly 3 other people), the season ended and I went back to that whole non-writing lifestyle that I just mentioned.
If you're reading this, then thanks! If you're reading this and wondering why I decided all of a sudden to start blogging on a random Friday in February, then even better! The biggest impetus for this blog was an article I read yesterday (an equally random Thursday in February) titled I Think I'm Musing My Mind by Roger Ebert, who had lost his ability to speak while battling cancer. It was a pretty good article, and I'll link it below, but to sum it up, he found that while he wasn't able to speak verbally, by writing more and more in his leisure time, he was able to communicate better. So basically, the point of this blog is that I want a piece of that pie (no homo?). I've been told that communication is the key to life, so there's no reason not to try to be better at it, right?
So basically here's how I'm going to try to run this: This isn't going to be a blog where you find out about what I did this past weekend, or who I saw on the train the other day. It's also not going to be a blog where I write about something obscure and meaningless that I saw, that sent me off into some artistic rift about our place in the universe and all that nonsense. It's not going to be about how things are coming along, what I'm into, or even who I am. As a matter of fact, I'm going to try my hardest to keep anything about my personal life out of this. I'll probably end up making vague references to where I'm from, and some part of my previous life experiences, but if this works out the way I'm envisioning it, one would be able to read through this blog without ever knowing anything concrete about my personal life. In fact, this title entry is the last time I intend on using anything more than one letter to represent my name. So take that, sharing, you asshole. That being said, I'm not fully versed in the way of a blog, and don't know the chances of someone random chancing upon this, so in all likelihood, the only people who'll ever read this will be my friends, and will know exactly who I am and what I've done. So what's the point? Like I said before: get better at writing. Pay attention, asshole. What will I write about? Who knows? I may never post again. I might write about current events, or something interesting or funny I thought up one day. This isn't supposed to entirely make sense, so I won't try to make it. And if you're waiting for me to write something cool and artsy that leaves you with a an interesting thread of thought on your mind before I sign off, then f*ck off.
I'm going to go eat lunch.
C
Oh, and here's that link :
Ebert- I think I'm musing my mind
