Starting...January 31, 2007
Well, the first entry has got to be the hardest. It's even worse than sitting in front of a white sheet (of either paper or screen). Not only is there nothing to guide, but it is also the starting point which has effectively no observers! No one knows about this blog (yet!) and so I'm theoretically writing to a future audience that may exist and then even if they do, will they ever go back to actually read this first post, which will have fallen off the page by then? Who knows? I guess that is part of the adventure.
I've been reading/lurking on many blogs over the past 18 months and even occasionally making contributions in the comments. Not anything that I would call significant, but it's something. I thought that it would be useful to perhaps start writing my own, mostly for myself. Hopefully that is why most people write blogs, since usually blogs don't have a real obvious outer experience - it's an expression of the inner person. But you never know how it will develop and how it will affect others. Many of the blogs that I read are also very personal, but they add something important to my own daily experience and life. It's strange. I'm a fairly confident person and don't need a lot of assurance from others, especially those who are just acquaintances or even unknown, however I find that it is pleasant to read experiences, thoughts and rants that are similar to my own.
It's also a good experience and helpful to me to ground myself with other experiences, thoughts and rants that do NOT reflect my own. That allows me to question what I know and feel and believe.
That should happen every day of every person's life.
So maybe, if I can do that even once a month for someone else, my selfish work here can become something that has contributed to others!
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