Why You Should:
1. Digital Documented
Diary
With the plethora of things to do and people to see we have
stopped documenting our thoughts, our feelings and even the mundane part of
what we did the day before. The result can be a blurred vision of one’s past
week. Documenting what you saw, heard and what interested you is a way to not
only improve your memory but digitally capture moments of your life.
2. Legacy
Face it, one day you will not be here but the work you leave
behind potentially will and with that you may create a legacy. Leaving behind a
legacy and the dream of being remembered years after you are gone is a large
part of why musicians pick up an instrument, an artist a paint brush and myself
a pen (or in this case a keyboard).
3. Visual Your Growth
If you are someone like me you find importance in
determining how far you have come in your life or sometimes, how much you have
regressed in some areas. Keeping an online database of what you once thought
is another way you can document either your progression or regression or the
combination of both.
4. “Sharing is Caring”
Chances are, if you have been through it there are dozens of
other people who are going through it at the moment and thus your insight as
being someone on the other side of the issue can bring clarity and a unique
perspective to those still struggling/dealing/trying to figure out the issue. Sharing unsolicited advice, tips (feel free to label it as
rambles) that I hold dear to my own life and that which is the foundation of my
own truth is the groundwork for the writing you will experience in this
blog.
5. Less Paper, More Blog Posts
When you write as much as I do the result is a vast
collection of journals and papers upon papers that contain my thoughts. This is
what happens when you have an overwhelming need to write daily. With this blog
now housing my thoughts, I am saving paper and helping the environment. How
very new-age of me.
Why You Shouldn’t:
1. “I Don’t Wanna Remember My Old Life, Don’t Make Me”
A blog can work as a collection of past online diary entries
and chances are there will be some you will read years from now and think to yourself,
“Was that really me?”, “Did I really have that much time on my hands.” Do you
also want to be reminded how self-indulgent and “you centered” your life was
before marriage and children?
2. Change is Inevitable
As people we change, actually we should change. If you know
someone and they have not changed their car or hair color for the last 3 years,
be afraid, be very afraid. With that said, there is good reason to believe that
everything you write one day will make my eyes roll (at my own former self).
3. Judgment Overkill
Lets start off by agreeing on one thing: human beings judge
and those who say they don’t are liars and you should stay away from. It’s a
survival mechanism we inherited from our ancestors and is pretty much the way
our brain categorizes who to mingle with and who to stay clear of. The ones
you should get close to are the ones who do indeed judge but stop themselves
and ask “Why am I judging?”, “Why am I annoyed or angered by them and what is
the true source of my annoyance?” Not being agreed with is not on my list of
worries or concerns with this blog but to be misunderstood, to have my words altered and
reread with the lose of their true intent, that is something that comes with
the territory of posting things online. You know those Sade lyrics, “No place
for beginners or sensitive hearts”? Well, I have a feeling I am going to learn
that blogging is indeed no place for beginners or sensitive hearts such as
mine. On that note, my only wish for myself is to become stronger and wiser than
the day I started this blog. In others words, progress, not regress.
4. This Will Either be Time Well Spent or Time Well Wasted
Writing/blogging, rewriting/reblogging, editing and
scrapping a piece altogether you just worked on for the last hour is time lost,
never to be reclaimed again. With every blog post, I am reminded that it is one
less conversation with my mom, one less Skype session with my family in Russia
and another moment, afternoon or day that is gone.
5. The Privacy Issue
With a blog (and the same can be said about other social
media platforms) a large part of the privacy you once had has now been
relinquished to the online community and the people who are going to read,
dissect and interpret your work. You are not the only one affected by this
though. As a writer the pieces you write are not only inspired by your own personal
experiences but also by those who are close to you- your friends. As a blog
grows and so does the amount of information on it, it will become normal for people to have a conversation with you and then proceed to ask, “This isn’t
going to go in the blog, right?” No real names will be used, I promise.
