Why Do We Blog?

Why Do We Blog??

Yea yea, I know, I blog too. And this question is something that has been on my mind for quite some time now. Why do I blog? Why do I write? There are so many bloggers across the internet – why do they blog? What differentiates one blog from another? Does anyone read my blog? More importantly, who would want to read my blog? Is it true? Whatever people write – is everything true and really heartfelt? Does this mean that each one of us bloggers are these super-right people who never have any negative feelings? Is it possible? If not, then where is the honesty on the blog? Why don’t those negative feelings come out?

Can’t answer for other people, but I can explain my case. Well, writing has always been an integral part of my life. In school, I used to write articles for the school magazine. I used to give my contributions to the annual magazine. With the advent of the internet, I started providing my inputs for the school website. I used to write my articles for state level competitions, representing my school. The best thing about my language papers for me was my essays. I used to love writing on an unknown subject which I had not pre-rehearsed.

I wish  I got into a profession about writing. But, for some time, my creative writing took a back seat as there was no website, magazine of my new place to which I made any contributions. And, then once I accidently stumbled upon someone’s BLOG. Interesting, I thought. I got lost in the immense stream of words, article after article. I loved reading people’s experiences, innermost feelings about worldly topics. These thoughts were not present in any book, online or any magazine. They were unique and yet, there was this connection with the feelings. Then, after I went about reading other blogs, I realised that true human feelings were not published in books and novels – they were on blogs. And then, I remembered my own articles and how I used to bring out human aspects to normal school events in my articles. It was at this time, I fell in love with blogging and I started my own blog.

I realised that it is a journey. When you start writing an article on your blog, you have no idea where it is going and which way it is going to turn. You just think of something, and start writing. Words just come into your mind and there is no clue when they are going to stop. It slowly becomes a thrill ride and before you know, paragraphs have been written. You then realise, that there was one sentence in your mind when you started, and then slowly once you emptied the sentence from your mind onto the paper, more and more words were formed.

I think that blogs are for opinionated people. They have opinions on almost everything and hence they write. About not writing bad feelings, well, do we ever tell a person that this is what we dislike? We don’t, do we? Even though it is in our minds. It is not cheating, it is pure good behaviour. Honesty doesn’t mean foolishness, does it? Same goes with blogging. We might not feel good about many things, but we gotta adhere to good civilized behaviour. That explains the absence of bad feelings on blogs. It is not dishonesty. We live in a society and we gotta stick to some rules.

About honesty, I never lie on my blog. I think that to lie on one’s blog is to lie to one’s soul. I don’t think that anyone lies on their blog. It is like your soul – just that the format is in words.

I used to put up what I read in Tumblr on my blog. Then I realized that it's not my work and second of all, I'm cheating no one but myself. I removed all the post I took copied from Tumblr and began writing my own. I had no intention of copying but I even failed to put up a "courtesy of Tumblr.." at the end of the post. So...

So yeah, I blog because I love to see my thoughts take shape into words. I read blogs because I love to see how human mind thinks and how easy it is to connect with another human emotion.

And sometimes, I also think that we bloggers have no work and hence all we do it write!  Did I just write your thoughts? No, I don’t think that blogging is for lonely people. It is for people who love the idea of writing and have opinions. It is as simple as that. If it was for lonely people, we would be living in a very scary world with more than half of the world writing. Eeeks – scary isn't it?

Maybe, writing is an in-born thing. Internet is a man-made thing. Maybe, Blogging is the result of what happens when an in-born quality meets a man-made invention.

Cheers to the all bloggers I've came across. And a double cheers to them, the bloggers that encouraged my blogging journey. The first person who brought me back into creative writing,  S-kay The Phantom, That one person I can relate everything from food,family, religion and passion, Nia's Ravishing Voyage and the very inspiring Sukhbir's Remedy of Dramedies whom impressed me with his style of writing.

Bonne journée! Amitiés, Lyana..