The Mystery of Blogging

What on earth am I doing? That would be an appropriate question for me to ask on a blog, and especially a blog about writing as an evolutionary art. As far as terms are concerned, writing seems a bit subjective to me, and almost as subjective as "love" would be in our culture. People approach writing from different backgrounds and perspectives and writers take the craft a step further by implementing purpose and devices to serve an end. Blogging though, seems to be both poetic and prosaic, both conversational and conventional, and both personal and global.

In order to fully capture the blog life, one has to let go of conventions (to a degree) and let loose. The blog then becomes a journal or free-write, where the blogger takes on the role of a useless communicator. But is this a fair assumption to make? Perhaps not, but in all sincerity, many blogs seem to capture and essence of carefreeness and release pointless information into a world of starving minds (starving for intellect of course).

But if the author comes alive in the text, the personality of the author becomes visible, or does it? Can the reader or follower"Know" the author through blog jibber jabber? Well, I'm not sure yet because I'm new to this whole process (as you can tell by the length of my blog). I mean, my blog has started off as a wonderful website. I have eloquent philosophies, and I've provided links to available and valuable information for myself (oops, and others), but does this blog really fit in?

At times I almost feel as though this new blog has already been ostracized by all its' school mates as he leans against a brick wall while everyone else throws dodge balls at "him" (assuming my blog also takes on my gender). Wow, this is becoming quite fun actually, At first, the idea of rambling on to the world appeared to be counterproductive, but I disagree now. Anyway, not to get off track from the original point of this post, but honestly, who doesn't want to read my mind? Isn't that the point?

In the end, what matters most is the point. Does it allow me the opportunity to share something? Does my blog fulfill the purpose I set out for it? Does it supply the reader with a clear definition of a blog in my mind? Does it share the conclusion I've made so far about blogging? I hope the answer is yes.