My daughter, Kristin, 21, poked fun at me last week for blogging. Mom, arent most bloggers, like, 15-years-old? But something just about my blog grabbed her interest. In fact, a week later, she associated my weblog community.
Her first blog say was a little tentative:
What's the saying? Don't knock it 'til you stone it (or something to that effect). fittingly here goes...hmm.....this is hard...Because I am a little skeptical of who may be reading this I'll just start out simple.
A blog (short for weblog) is an online diary or journal. Its a little unnerving to publish journal entries upon a public blog, not knowing who may edit them.
The first week that I blogged, I reduced myself to death because I was worried roughly what people would think practically my real life. To other go to to my paranoia, others started posting clarification to my entries, thus I knew people were out there . . . reading.
So, are blogs legitimate journals or not?
My first thought was no. Blogging seemed more behind a conversation next contacts than personal journaling. After all, personal journaling is every just about recording private thoughts and blogs are public.
However, my thoughts not quite blogging are changing. A tiny at a time, I broadcast who I am through my blog. My blog posts are evolving into thoughts and remarks practically liveliness that I no longer self-edit. Its been a liberating experience.
In my personal journal, I write things that I know to be legal virtually myself that I'm unable to look for one reason or another. taking into consideration I'm done journaling, I tuck the journal in a drawer, put on my mask and go out into the world.
Not subconscious legitimate to who I truly am causes every kinds of problems in my relationships. Further, if my behavior doesnt descent stirring bearing in mind my values, it keeps me from meeting important goals, growing spiritually and compromises my living thing and mental health.
Its important to keep a personal journal for my eyes isolated I always will. But integrating some of the thoughts I cassette in my journal behind my public blog is peeling away layers of self-consciousness and tentativeness.
I knew I was a authentic blogger taking into consideration I re-read a blog pronounce and, otherwise of editing it, I thought, This is who I am, and, hey, Im okay!
My additional philosophy as a blogger is: The closer I can acquire to integrating my genuine self into my public self, the bigger off I am. And, of course, Dont knock it til you stone it!
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