Wednesday, October 22, 2008

A Blog Is A Curious Thing..

A blog is a curious thing. For instance, has it ever occurred to you to wonder just how many people actually see your blog? Do you really know at all how many read your words of wisdom? I thought not. Well that is something that I began wondering about as I sat around trying to imagine first what I was going to write about next in this blog, then, more than that, whatever it is that I end up writing, will anyone actually read it at all. I mean like, why bother? Big question..


We bother because we think we have something worth saying. I guess that's it. Or it may be because we just wanted to see what it looks like up there in print. In other words, many of us really write because we do, having any one (or more) of a myriad of reasons for doing this. It can even thought to be fun to actually write something; almost anything actually, with little more inspiration or reason than that. Some people, me included, just like to carry on with pen and paper. Or, as is the case here, keyboard and screen. To support that, I have thousands of pages of pen and paper musings (not so sure they are always exactly that, but..) packed up in boxes around the house. I have thrown away thousands more pages that fell short of whatever standard I tried to apply to my writing. It is for sure that quantity like that can hardly make its way onto the pages of a blog, but still, the blog draws out the stirring that caused all that production in the first place. Yet, who reads it all? Few have read most of the boxed writings. Indeed, the large majority is unread by anyone else at all. Still we write. And when my son showed me how even I could write a blog, I fairly leaped at the chance to get to it. Of course, I spent little time wondering who might actually read whatever I was going to write, but that didn't matter much at all (still doesn't). But a few weeks into this new adventure, I have done some wondering about this minor detail of blogging, like just who reads it? So I decided that for this blog I would set that question out on the line and see if I could get any response at all. What I would like anyone who reads this blog to do is simply enter a reply. Make it as short as you like, or longer if you feel particularly prolific, but just give me a response of some kind. I would appreciate it, and I am curious. Since happenstance is the most likely way you have stumbled onto my blog in the first place, I don't imagine I will get many replies. But for whatever I do get, thank you..