My daughter, Kristin, 21, poked fun at me last week for blogging. Mom, arent most bloggers, like, 15-years-old? But something virtually my blog grabbed her interest. In fact, a week later, she joined my weblog community.
Her first blog state was a little tentative:
What's the saying? Don't knock it 'til you rock it (or something to that effect). fittingly here goes...hmm.....this is hard...Because I am a little skeptical of who may be reading this I'll just begin out simple.
A blog (short for weblog) is an online diary or journal. Its a tiny unnerving to publicize journal entries upon a public blog, not knowing who may right of entry them.
The first week that I blogged, I condensed myself to death because I was anxious about what people would think about my real life. To extra grow to my paranoia, others started posting observations to my entries, fittingly I knew people were out there . . . reading.
So, are blogs authentic journals or not?
My first thought was no. Blogging seemed more like a conversation in the same way as friends than personal journaling. After all, personal journaling is all nearly recording private thoughts and blogs are public.
However, my thoughts just about blogging are changing. A tiny at a time, I proclaim who I am through my blog. My blog posts are evolving into thoughts and comments practically enthusiasm that I no longer self-edit. Its been a liberating experience.
In my personal journal, I write things that I know to be legal approximately myself that I'm unable to impression for one explanation or another. later I'm done journaling, I tuck the journal in a drawer, put upon my mask and go out into the world.
Not physical authentic to who I essentially am causes every kinds of problems in my relationships. Further, if my behavior doesnt extraction up subsequent to my values, it keeps me from meeting important goals, growing spiritually and compromises my subconscious and mental health.
Its important to save a personal journal for my eyes lonesome I always will. But integrating some of the thoughts I stamp album in my journal in the manner of my public blog is peeling away layers of self-consciousness and tentativeness.
I knew I was a valid blogger later I re-read a blog name and, then again of editing it, I thought, This is who I am, and, hey, Im okay!
My further philosophy as a blogger is: The closer I can acquire to integrating my authentic self into my public self, the augmented off I am. And, of course, Dont knock it til you stone it!
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