Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
This title was chosen based on how I perceive my blogging would turn out to be. As it turned out, it could be for nothing. But on the other side, Blogging kinda helped me in improving my grades and made me do something worthwhile once in a while. Many of my friends say blogging is like an online diary where you write things that got in your thoughts or feelings that jumped out of your brain and post it in the net. Well, maybe it is. But our Blogs has definitely become like one as we are supposed to publish and show our reflections and learning, or on rare occasions a discoveries, on some subject that may or may not interests some of us at all. Now, now. A blog can become into other things too. A Blog can be an online news journal maybe or a tutorial corner, or maybe even an online voting poll. Blogs can be very interesting for the chosen target (a type of audience which the author wants to see and appreciate his/her articles) and be very boring to the rest. And I think no one can make a Blog be interesting and captivating to everybody, whoever he/she is or how different he/she can get. People get different names and faces because each one is purely different; and as proud and powerful beings on Earth, people need distinction and individuality to continue to live, survive and evolve. Some people may like an object while at the same time, other some people hate it. From what many philosophers said, if there is something that agrees or represent an object then there must be something that disagrees or “disrepresent” that object. So you can’t say your Blog can make everybody happy now. It would be in contradiction with the essence of the individuality of one’s existence.
Despite all of these unnecessary ramblings, I do believe that everything done and produced by a person is an extension of one’s self as it can represent and reflect his character or personality one way or another. Blogging is not an exception. You can read and monitor a development of an individual’s Blog, and you may learn to see and understand his/her character or at least his/her preferences of font and theme. Returning to the subject concerned, we can say that a Blog can be a picture or an image of one’s personality. Especially if your Blog is more on the personal side rather than on the professional side. (Then what?) Then it means Blogging can be more than just posting some article or paragraphs in the Internet and waiting for someone to comment. Blogging can be a tool for professional work, a therapy for someone’s condition, or be an online diary for someone wishing that there would a person with the time and the right mind to read it. Everyone can have a blog and it is very easy to create and own one. But Blogging starts when you start to post items in it. And the difficulty lies in maintaining it and/or improving it. Why? Because people’s interests change very fast and boredom can be very lethal. (Well, you do know boredom can come from being boring.). Of course, when I mean everybody can, I meant those with the capability and enough interest, maybe you would add enough knowledge and skills. People who can’t express themselves very much usually avoid this kind of activity. There are also others like those who hate the internet or technology, those who can’t see, can’t read or understand a thing, those that don’t have the luxury (well, you can imagine what kind of luxury it is) or just plain uninterested and don’t have time. It can be a really sad to think that not everybody can enjoy Blogging and engage in this activity. And I meant “can”.
(So what the heck and tell all of this stuff?)I don’t know. I can’t relate much either. But the fact that I can’t relate or share the enthusiasm of other Bloggers basically means I can’t do Blogging. (oh, now your showing) Initially, this one was intended to be the new introduction part to this Blog. (Now why Nothing?) Nothing because as it literally means, zero. Seriously, Blogging can be nothing but a powerful tool or medium to share important or significant knowledge through one’s personal learning, reflection and discovery; and empower people to express themselves and prove their individuality to the world.
Heck, Blogging is too troublesome and a waste of time. But at least, not at what it is for. Just remember in the old days, people can die from speaking. Now nobody can stop us from blogging. Hahaha.. happy Blogging!