Are blogs cool?
Are blogs helpful?
Would I be better off being just like Creed from The Office who only puts his thoughts into a word document for no one to read?
"..no one puts a lamp under his bed after he lights it. He puts it on a lampstand..." (It's from Luke in the Bible, poorly paraphrased by me)
There are probably about half as many blogs as there are people, and that's a whole lot. Even if the precise number of blogs was half or even half-half of my original guess, we're still looking at 750 million blogs in the world. What are they about?
Cooking.
Relationships.
Religion.
Cooking and Religion.
People with access to the internet and at least 5 fingers (10 is preferable) can write whatever thoughts they want and throw it into the world wide web of information.
It's overwhelming.
I'm getting sick of it already and I just started this post 7 minutes ago.
But you know what? It's cathartic. Getting my thoughts out on to a screen or a piece of paper is resourceful for my thought-life, which is, all in all, my life.
So I don't think it matters whether blogs are cool or helpful (though that certainly seems like the goal), the reason there are 750 million (take that one to the bank!) blogs is because people need to get it out. Shake it off. Breathe life in by exhaling out. Or something.
The last post I made on this blog was 3 years ago. I was 20, in-love with someone I knew nothing about, and living in Chicago attempting to be a pastor.
Now I'm 23, in love with my wife, and living in New York attempting to be an actor.
The trouble is, I don't remember the last 3 years. I wasn't on mushrooms. I didn't write it down. Sure, there are pictures. There are Facebook posts. That's TimeHop. But I don't think that tells the whole story.
I have 10 minutes left on this library computer. I'm currently in Dexter, MI on a contract with a theatre company doing a holiday show. I have no car, no one that I have a deep relationship with. So I go to the library. Reading is important. Everyone should read.
