Well, first of all I started this blog for me. I wanted a place where I can express things that have happened to me or my family. Things I wanted to keep, journal and have to recall when my memory totally fails me. Someone told me years ago, and I am so unorganized I didn't do this, to journal. They told me if I didn't journal, just write down things on a piece of paper and put it somewhere. The problem with that is I can never find the piece of paper in the somewhere location. My life as I knew it, is no longer in existence. Marriage, job, and four children later, my brain is gone.
The more I read other people's blogs the more I wanted to do my own, so I started. Some of my closest friends don't even know I do this. I was and am scared of what people will read and think of me. What will they think? Some people are so poetic and write as if they were expert journalist. Me, who am I? I felt guilty that I read other blogs and they didn't know it. Then I was reading one of my favorite blogs, I think she is so funny, just like her mom. Then she wrote a post about lurkers. A friends asked what she thought about people she doesn't know read her blog. Well, she gets a report about who and when and how long they look at her blog. Now, I am so busted. Wow, that was convicting.
I had to reevaluate why should I care if others read mine, when I read theirs. I mentioned to a friend about JOY, my word from God. I let it slip that I blogged. They wanted my blog address and I honestly don't even know how one finds my blog, I just know how I get on it. I'm not that savvy yet. I thought, I don't know that I want people reading my personal thoughts. Then, how guilty am I when I read theirs. The other point is why would I put anything on the internet that I didn't want people to read. My word. Anyone can get to it.
All this to say, now that people know, it's cool. It may inspire me to write more. I know I check often to look at other people's new stuff. Now the truth is out, I read yours and you read mine. We are even!
2 comments:
Write on, sister! I'm glad I found you - after all - you know how resourceful I can be when I put my mind to it! Love you!
I am so glad you are blogging. That is how I found you, through my live feed. I like your stories and even though I see you in passing, it is nice to check in with you this way.
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