I'm not sure if anyone really cares about blogging anymore.
Our lives are so exposed and so EASY to expose with far less effort these days that it's hardly worth the effort.
I mean yeah, there's no shortage of "CEO corner" examples but that's just marketing fluff to appease shareholders.
It's rare that I see anything genuine simply because so few care about the medium.
Which is one of the reasons I started this blog. I was fairly certain nobody would read it which lets it live in a kind of limbo of being "online" but still largely anonymous. That also removes the barriers to my content that come from trying to please an audience.
Take it for what it's worth and I have to admit sometimes it's absolutely worthless.
But there are those times when something magical happens. Brief interludes where thoughts, ideas and emotions flow freely culminating in something that gives me pause.
And I wrote it!
If you want to know the purpose it's quite simple really...
It's a collection of points in time, a sounding board and sometimes just a writing exercise. Most of the time there's no grand plan, no agenda, no motive.
In fact it's much like the classic personal diary except I rarely expose the personal except to illustrate a concept I may be trying to get across.
I've actually had readers contact me expressing concern over certain posts that may seem indicative of some kind of internal strife.
Trust me, nothing is further from reality. You're just getting a window into my process of purging those things that are better not internalized.
That kind of thing is at odds, however, with something that's always worried me. That is, being misunderstood and sending the wrong message.
There are times when words can't express what's in my head no matter how hard I try. Thoughts and emotions, joy, sorrow, befuddlement and amusement.
Some things are meant to be expressed in other ways...
Of course that's not the sole purpose of this blog. Writing exercises, commentary on popular culture and even my own brand of philosophy are found here.
A grab bag of disjointed topics collected together in one grand mess.
So love it, hate it or ponder it just know that I'm probably doing the same after I hit that "publish" button.
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