I Blog, Therefore I am

Why do we blog? Personally, I find it much easier to share my thoughts and experiences in writing. I am usually rather stand-offish in social situations where I don't know very many people. My tongue gets wrapped around my eye teeth and I can't see what I'm saying.

I also have a pretty sensitive B.S.-O-Meter, and the fact that I simply do not have a poker face usually lets the other person know exactly what I'm thinking. This makes for short conversations, at any rate.

So, for me, blogging is a way of reaching out to people without having to get dressed and put on makeup. It's also a learning experience. Reading the blogs of people all over this country and in other countries is enriching as well as entertaining. You can larn how other people think and feel without the distractions of other conversations around you while trying to balance a paper plateful of shrimp and a drink of some description, and wondering what on earth promted him/her to wear that outfit.

Some of the people on my blogroll have become as dear to me as some of the people I have known, in person, for years. All of them are people I would feel comfortable with. It's a community of thoroughly likeable people, unlike the actual community in which I live.

In a small town, people tend to be all alike, which leads to boredom, and after you attend a few meetings or social activities with them, the thrill is gone. It's a rather inbred community, with inward-looking citizens, and I'd rather have diversity. Most of the people in my town are perfectly happy to remain here and never go past the city or county limits, either physically or mentally. Nothing really wrong with that, I guess, but look how much they miss out on.

Bloggers, in my opinion, are basically honest about themselves, it would seem. Maybe I have just been lucky enough to find the best of them, but, since it is a journal, as opposed to, say MySpace, it lends itself to more self-analyzation, in many cases. Hence, we know each other from the inside out, instead of the other way around.

So, to all my blogbuddies out there, I thank you for being my friends, and I hope we'll be friends for a long time to come.

Gettin old makes you contemplative. I'll be funnier next time.