Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Truth be told...
I began blogging a few years back when a friend of mine introduced me to Xanga. At first, I was thrilled with the possibility of indulging the exhibitionist in me with an online display of my personal life where I can divulge every detail of my life in vulgar detail. And so it was that I began adding entries every other day (it would seem that I had a lot to say but in retrospect, most of the stuff that I blogged about were trivial in nature, try as I did to inject some value into my thoughts). Time eventually played its inevitable hand and wore the novelty thin.

What was the fun of putting your life online if the only witnesses were the friends that you meet everyday within and without of school? At that point of my blogging history, I felt that to blog my thoughts was nothing but a redundant exercise. Being in possession of an excessively verbose personality, any thought of mine would have long passed from my lips to the ether and (hopefully) into the thoughts of my recepients (both intended and unintended: did I mention that I am whisper-challenged?). So I endeavoured to look for a wider audience. I started linking my site to others in the hopes that they would look me up should they feel like it. I even installed a site meter just to see how many people came. To my utter, utter disappointment, I only made a few new friends. Don't get me wrong, our subsequent exchange of ideas was exhilirating and I really did appreciate the rapport that we shared but I wanted more than that. I mean, it is mass media after all is it not? So I stopped blogging for a while.

After a while, my friend who de-flowered me to the world of blogging showed me a feature of xanga that I haven't seen before. It seems that I could personalise my site with different templates and themes to avoid the "fresh-from-the-printing-press" look of generic website layouts. I went wild with blogging again, putting up new material along with a different look everytime I blogged. I know it sounds kind of crazy, I mean people like the familiar and a new setup everytime you log in might be just a little too much to stomach, but whatever, I was having fun again. For a while anyway, at least. Eventually, that novelty wore itself thin and my activities slowed down considerably once again. That was, of course, up to two weeks ago.

SO what's changed? Why am I doing this again (even a blind man can see the cyclical pattern of my ever waxing and waning interest in the things I do). I'll tell you why. Because it's fun. Breaking out of the monotony of life (college) by beginning a new sort of monotony (blogging) gets me going more than a triple shot of espresso ever would. (By the way, I cannot drink coffee as caffiene shoots my nerves right through my skull into high heaven). So, here's to blogging (once again).
 
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