The Blogger's eye!
“What is the big deal about blogging?”
I find I have no real answers to this question, frequently posed to me by the uninitiated (a.k.a. non-bloggers)! I am unable to explain to them why exactly a blog works, especially for me.
I could give them the quintessential ‘consumer speak’ answers that I have picked up during the course of my job…
“It’s your public diary”, “It’s your personal space”, “It helps you express yourself”
[er…perhaps it might just help if I mention at this point that part of my job is to understand those poor dissected, partially dehumanized and totally un-individualized souls labeled ‘consumers’ my marketers! The answers mentioned above are some culled out from a research!]
…but, jokes apart, I think somewhere these statements seem to be missing the point.
A blog does all of this, is all of these but somewhere it does something more for me, something which is difficult to explain.
How do I explain that as a person, I am myopic (both literally and metaphorically!), but as a blogger I am vision magnified? That no small incident in my life goes unnoticed?
How do I explain a blog allows me to revel in and review my life at the same time? That while part of me is experiencing the event, part of me is observing it?
How do I explain the fact that at times I become a bystander in my own life? That at times, when I am watching a movie, I am forming a blog entry in my mind rather than an opinion?
How do I explain that a blog introduces an observer in my life who sometimes helps me put things in perspective?
Hmmm…actually not bad, maybe I am getting there. Maybe I could now explain some things to the non-bloggers.
About how, for me, the blog started out as something that helped me express my opinion and has now become something that helps form my opinion.
Yes. That is it.
Ok non-bloggers, if you happen to stray to this site, I have my answers ready!!
posted by daviejones at 4:57 AM
5 Comments:
I remember answering those questions and giving those general answers, bah.
Nice to see you're finally back:) Now we've got to get our fourth out of hibernation.
You is welcome baaaackkk!!!
I went back to times when I asked bloggers these questions. My very first post was about how I thought blogging was over-rated. And here I am today, doing diligent duties, even when not asked for!!!
Hmph for duties STILL not done!
This post is very you Jo. :)
A: The Fourth shall rise. I forgot how to add HTML tags, can you believe it :( :( :(
Now what is that supposed to mean?
:)))
Jo
Don't we all ask that question to ourselves when we start blogging, or when we see someone's blog?
And, like every human endeavour in this world, we aren't classified to form our opinion about blogging unless we have had a complete taste of it. Nevertheless, we try to explain it as a daily diary, a journal (I still find blogging to be that very thing, it's a record of one's own self).
I completely agree with your views about what blogging means. I've felt the same, too.
A blog is similar to all human creations: it's you, your personality, your views put together in a form that everyone else can decipher. It becomes a part of you. At some point, it starts defining you, because it makes you think about yourself and your views. That then helps you to be able to consider yourself during any situation in life.
Someone who's had some experience with a particular form of art, can appreciate the artist's emotion, not just the art itself. And blogging is a form of art. Everything we do is.
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