Why You Blog

You have intrigued me through your blog posting, "Why I Blog." I can hardly believe that what you say is true. Mr. Sullivan, one of the most popularly read bloggers, was as common a person as I? Technically challenged, you said. Well, it is fairly inspirational how blogging changed your life. It is very interesting that you referred to blogging as “like taking a narcotic” (page 2). If such is the case, it is fair to say that blogging, to you, was a way in which to live on the wild side. Therefore, you blog because it warrants your inner beast to thrive.

The promise of greatness is very appealing to some, in that one could become famous for their simple writings, yet you blog because you like the thrill of it. The thrill of the hunt and killing of the old ways. The thrill of finding new avenues of thought. You, as you say, felt like a revolutionary. A revolutionary is someone who sees what society is doing and acts for a certain reason, for the good of the people. Therefore, it is fair to say that you were a revolutionary. You have helped others into seeing different ways to broadcast their thoughts. You helped society grow. You helped clear the brush along the trail to linguistic salvation.

I do not feel that the reasons why you blog are terribly important, as if you cared to say the reasons why you eat at a certain restaurant. But, what is important, and what you do wonderfully, is make people think deeply about what they write, or for that matter, what they read. In your story of why you blog, you continue to show what blogging did for you. Maybe it could help others to express themselves. It surely helped me.