Day #2 No Work - A rant on blogs
I admit that I’m addicted to reading blogs. I do it for hours some nights when I’m home alone, and sometimes hours when I’m not (that drives Ryan nuts but hey! he told me I should have a hobby!). For the most part it seems that blogs out there are filled with people talking about things that they can’t talk about in real life to the people who are in their real life. I don’t think I’m like that. I find lots of times that I’m trying really hard to be witty, or to write something that I think other people might be interested in reading, but i don’t very often talk about things that are really upseting, or things I’m super worried about, or anything too terribly private. I know it has a lot to do with the fact that my husband reads here, my in-laws read here, my girlfriends read here, friends I had in high school found me here, and the other day someone at my work told me that he accidently stumbled across it…. I just don’t feel that comfortable saying what I’m feeling all the time. (unless there’s alcohol involved of course)
So I’m wondering: do any of you have a secret blog? I know that some of the blogs I do read are secret blogs and I sometimes envy your ability to say what you need to say. I feel like this blog is thearaputic for me in that I get to have this one creative thing in my life, but as far as it being an outlet to vent about what I want to freely? Its not. And honestly, sometimes I feel like I’m tethered to this blog. I know I’m not alone in this, but I really love when I write something and it interests people enough that they take the time to comment. But I don’t want to feel like my happiness about my blog depends on that, you know?
At any rate, I’m coming up on a year of blogging now and I really can’t imagine not having it. Its inspired me to take more pictures and to try to find humorous things in my life. Plus, I got a postcard from the Badlands as a result of this thing. And that’s pretty cool.
