Why Do You Blog?
I was questioned several weeks ago, "Why do you blog?". At that moment, i remember how i started blogging. It was more like society pressure, everyday i realize that more and more people own a blog. Everybody got a their space, their share of the free and liberal internet. So i went to start a blog at a Blogger, staring at the empty post thinking what do people write? Henceforth, i went on a quest to find out what people blog, i look around randomly at blogs figuring their inspiration behind their posted message.
Most inspiration really have to come from your daily encounter with life, with situations, with conversations that you have with other people. There is a whole abundance of inspiration from everything around us, the only trick is to see it and let your mind absorb it.
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Ultimately, blogging promotes communication and communication is good. Men of the past shed blood for out right to do this, and that's because free speech empowers, educates, challenges and informs us. When you read history, you'll notice that people were easily enslaved or corrupted when their literacy was controlled or forbidden. This is why it was against the law to teach a slave to read or write. If they could keep them from communicating their ideas to each other on a broad scale, they could control them. This is also one of the reaons why the natives many countries were easily conquered; They had no real written language. the pen or the keyboard is indeed one of the mightiest tools we have, and with great privileges.
Although basically, communication is good, it can be used for great evil. We all know that it is written propagrandas that brough Hitler to power, and the endless creepy stuff on the internet. That's why i like blogging. It's more of an exchange with the author inviting his reader's thoughts and opinions. Sadly, i don't seem to be getting much comment. I wanted this to be a forum where the exchange is sort of public, so i feel more accountable and careful. For example, I'm not going to gossip or try to initiate and extra-marital affair on a blog.
To think of it, people who write have to, and why would we try to stop them? It would be to our own disaster. The bloggers of today are similar to those people who wrote on caves in the beginning. It's the way they share what's inside of them. To express means to show what's inside. For example, my friend, Ban, think of what he means when he says "Wah lao eh, tear until his skin all came out and you can see the flesh inside the skull, damn nice", saying those while try to illustrate with his hands demonstrating how its done. Yes, he is saddist. However, it's still his right to express himself. Everyone expresses themselves through something, and that need is placed there by the Creator. Like him, we want to be known, intimate, revealed.
Blogging enables me to remove my mask of society and be true to myself. To sit, think and type while searching myself. Its really a blessing if i get constructive comments, as feedback is like food to blog authors.
Another major question answered, to myself and to everyone. Cheers.
Most inspiration really have to come from your daily encounter with life, with situations, with conversations that you have with other people. There is a whole abundance of inspiration from everything around us, the only trick is to see it and let your mind absorb it.
************
Ultimately, blogging promotes communication and communication is good. Men of the past shed blood for out right to do this, and that's because free speech empowers, educates, challenges and informs us. When you read history, you'll notice that people were easily enslaved or corrupted when their literacy was controlled or forbidden. This is why it was against the law to teach a slave to read or write. If they could keep them from communicating their ideas to each other on a broad scale, they could control them. This is also one of the reaons why the natives many countries were easily conquered; They had no real written language. the pen or the keyboard is indeed one of the mightiest tools we have, and with great privileges.
Although basically, communication is good, it can be used for great evil. We all know that it is written propagrandas that brough Hitler to power, and the endless creepy stuff on the internet. That's why i like blogging. It's more of an exchange with the author inviting his reader's thoughts and opinions. Sadly, i don't seem to be getting much comment. I wanted this to be a forum where the exchange is sort of public, so i feel more accountable and careful. For example, I'm not going to gossip or try to initiate and extra-marital affair on a blog.
To think of it, people who write have to, and why would we try to stop them? It would be to our own disaster. The bloggers of today are similar to those people who wrote on caves in the beginning. It's the way they share what's inside of them. To express means to show what's inside. For example, my friend, Ban, think of what he means when he says "Wah lao eh, tear until his skin all came out and you can see the flesh inside the skull, damn nice", saying those while try to illustrate with his hands demonstrating how its done. Yes, he is saddist. However, it's still his right to express himself. Everyone expresses themselves through something, and that need is placed there by the Creator. Like him, we want to be known, intimate, revealed.
Blogging enables me to remove my mask of society and be true to myself. To sit, think and type while searching myself. Its really a blessing if i get constructive comments, as feedback is like food to blog authors.
Another major question answered, to myself and to everyone. Cheers.
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