Blog Hopping

Today, I have discovered a blog.

Do you ever find the idea of blogging a bit...weird? I recently stumbled upon the blog of a real-life friend and it's kind of strange because I'm not really sure whether to admit that I have seen it. It made me slightly sad, too, that I don't know much about her day-to-day life from actual contact, but on her blog it's there for all to see. And it's written in the way that you want people to read; rhetorical questions, addressing the webspace like a blog is a conversation, only it doesn't really matter to whom you're talking.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great to meet friends on the internet and I've had some great experiences as a result of net interactions. But sometimes I read back on what I've posted and I think how awkward it would be if I knew someone I knew was reading it. Embarrassing, if they continued to read backwards

Like, this isn't really me? I don't talk like this, I don't know why I write like this, I don't know why I'm writing at all. I kind of jumped on the BEDM bandwagon without true commitment to the cause for the very reason that I was feeling super self-conscious about writing anything and I hoped that an outside force encouraging me to publish something every day would make me worry less about what was written as I had a daily deadline. I still use an awful lot of I's in my sentences.

It's not that surprising that a close friend writes a blog. To be honest, there's not even anything in it that is particularly surprising information to me; I know the major stuff that's going on, I just don't have the frequent updates on the food she ate that weekend. It's not that the blog deliberately obscures personal details, either. Maybe having a blog is just like letting another side of you to the world. We all have different friends for different activities, and it's easier with a blog to share a side of you that work or school or university friends may not appreciate, or just to let thoughts out in a place where someone will see them, but you don't necessarily want to *discuss* them.

It feels like blogging has suddenly become cool, and it earns you money, and you can make a living from it and get popular and well known and awesome. As I said, that doesn't bother me, it's great and I'm not really bemoaning the de-nerding of blogging, but it does kind of feel like I should write because I have a point, a new dress or a healthy recipe rather than just write because I can.

I haven't read any book pages in a few days. Whoops.

Flitterbox: The Staves ~ Wisely and Slow