Thoughts on blogging

I woke up this morning with very little expectations and achievable goals. Glad to report that I have not been disappointed as all my expectations have been met and both goals have been achieved. I picked up killers tickets and mailed out the package. Hey, when you set the bar low, you really have nothing to complain or feel ashamed about.

I always wondered how blogging boomed while I wasn't looking and now has become as common place as teased hair in the 80s. Alongside with blogging, there was also a sudden trend of using bed, bath, and body works antibacterial hand soap and scented body cream which I recently noticed. Have I been falling asleep at the wheel? It seems these days that everyone has a blog. Whether you're famous or not, whether people read it or not, it doesn't matter. If you're anyone that means anything to anyone in this world, you must blog.

Perhaps blogging is like an addiction. The more you do it, the more it sucks you in. Its like cocaine or heroin. The more you use it, the more you crave it, and the next thing you know, you are consumed by it. Maybe someday there will be AA for bloggers (or actually BA in this case).

I have an addictive personality at times. Its easy these days to form addictions without even trying...shopping, buying shoes, surfing the net, playing video games, drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex, plastic surgery,text messaging, tv, blackberries, gambling, dieting, exercising, overeating __xyz___ etc...You name it, and there's not only an addiction but also a support group for it. Anything compulsive and that is able to fill that craving for instant and immediate mental, physical, and visual stimulation/gratification is fair game to form an addiction. That is why I personally don't take the liberty to get myself too involved in anything too stimulating/gratifying at the risk of having things unravel on me and my life getting completely out of control.

So I ask myself, why in the world did I suddenly decided that I would start a blog? Why would anyone want to read what I have to say? Do I care? Do they care? Then I realised that blogging could be a good way to do a brain dump of all things that go through my head and get it out of my system. Some sort of overly self indulging purging of thoughts and allowing the world into a place that used to be secluded and a sacred. A ritual sort of akin to the new trends you see these days of doing physical cleansing and detox with the exception that this is a mental cleanse.