Journaling

Okay, so this is it, I am officially a Blogger. However, I feel as though I must defend my reasons for creating my own blog. I don't know why really... maybe it's because blogs are a dime a dozen, that I feel a bit like a cliche. Also, it could be because with the very recent creation of personal blogs by two of my closests peeps, that I appear now as the proverbial sheep. Whatever the reason, I present to you my case for begining this journey:

Over my lifetime, I have seldom kept a journal or diary. I don't think I ever really saw the point. Why would I want to put on paper my everyday thoughts, when no one but me would ever read it anyway? Also, I am a lazy person, and viewed writting of any kind as a chore. (Ahem, just ask me to see my daughter's baby books... it's sad really).

With the introduction to 'Facebook' to the world, I realized that when I would update my status, I would often want to say so much more then just the one liner they let you write. Not that anything I had to say was of particular importance or intrest, but that I just wanted to expand on my current situation or opinion. Enter the first thoughts of "Hey, maybe I should have a blog".

Then a few friends of mine started their own blogs, and I became addicted to reading all about their little adventures in life. Now I really started to think "Hey, I have adventures and opinions too!"

What finally sold me was the realization that blogging is really like journaling, but everybody gets to read it. Now journaling finally seemed to have a point to me, (enter the narcissism), and voila! Here I am typing my first ever journal entry, in hopes that I will give all the voices in my head a true venue to speak.