foolfillment: the blog

Little.red.boat turned five yesterday, yet still feels like she’s nothing to show for it.

I have never quite learnt what a blog is, or what one is supposed to do with it, but I like having one

This blog, albeit in its original form turns 4 next Wednesday, and reading that makes me ask the eternal question, why do I keep a blog?* I feel kind of the same as Anna, I’ve only ever been an occasional blogger, certain topics I can write about for a series of posts but keeping up a regular output just isn’t my thing - other than a daily summary kind of thing, and let’s face it that’s of no interest to anyone except me.

I do see the value of that sort of thing though, and if I’d had easier internet access while I was in New Zealand I probably would have made an online journal with photos and lots of links, after all I kept up a similar handwritten diary. It still remains that I didn’t do that, so why do I keep a blog. It isn’t, and has never been, about attracting lots of readers and garnering comments, although I really enjoy it when it’s apparent that people do read the blog and I appreciate each and every comment more than it might appear - I really should make the effort to reply to more - no, the reason I keep it up is it’s a place to put my thoughts down, to clarify my position. I am the prime user and always have been, is that selfish?

I’m going to try to be more prolific, what’s always stopped me is that I don’t want this place to be boring for those that do read it, so I don’t post each and every thought I have; in a world where there is so much information and so much of it is disregarded as being unnecessary I don’t want mine to be bulking up the excess, and maybe that is like cutting off my nose to spite my face. Anyway, from now I plan to post more. Maybe you’d like to suggest some topics and that way it’d be more interesting for you.

Enough rambling it’s almost time for Neighbours.

The fact that I can’t bring myself to use blog as a noun maybe means I’m just not cut out to be a real blogger.

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