Interesting Discovery

It’s funny how many blogs there are out there, or in here, whatever. But as I look through the many, many “blogs of note”, seeking a kindred spirit that just wants to write down their thoughts and post it for the world to see and critique, makes me giggle a little inside. I mean some of us blog to just put thoughts down. Some of us do it to keep friends and family up to date and some of us do it for attention.


Of course, there are many more reasons to blog and I am sure as many as there are bloggers at least. My main reason is to put down thoughts and musings that come to me through the day that I will most likely relate verbally with friends.  However, I also want to try and paint a picture with written words and convey the scents, sounds and feelings of the event without voice inflection. To me that is power and strength. To write something and have someone else feel it with their imagination: To fill in the blanks left there either purposefully or not.

I see things occur every day that in my mind send me on a journey of "Why did that happen?" and "What could have been different?" or I think, "What thing in the past had to occur for this to have occurred right here in front of me now, this way?" I know, it’s either deep to some or ridiculous to others but I think like that. My mind stays busy with these things as I go about my day. I wonder if everything is just cause and effect. For example, I see a wreck in front of me and wonder if that was all set into motion because one person ten years ago handled a part on that car in the manufacturing plant instead of someone else because they went on break. I mean am I crazy for thinking like that?

If that person that was on break had waited ten minutes to take a break and DID handle that bumper, would that wreck have occurred? Silly but it keeps me busy wondering about the electric responses in our world as it is connected to our brains.

So I see these blogs and I wonder, "How many things have I actually effected just by my thoughts expressed, my words I use or the incidents I relate?" It gives me pause to ensure that I preface opinion appropriately and state facts intelligently. We live in an impressionable time and the more we present our lives, thoughts and beliefs online, the many more hundreds of people we have reading it and reacting to it somehow.

Many times I will read something and later that night I am lying awake and thinking to myself, “I wonder what they were really thinking when they said that?”

As the weather changes this year, my blog will revert more to the outdoors and the things I love to do and within that, there will be little stories of my family and our experiences peppered in there. In no way do I think I am special and my stories and experiences deserve the attention of the world, but I think that a small portion of us want to see what the other person is doing and see how much love and real compassion we have in us. We don’t see it enough in application and I believe blogs give us the few ounces of human dignity and compassion that we expect is truly resident in a being. The goodness that needs to exist to make sure our society keeps going in the right direction: The direction of taking care of each other and helping in the way that is from our strengths, even if it is just encouragement in the written word.  We're all looking for something whether concious or subconciously.

So keep writing, keep reading. Some of these blogs are entertaining and some of them are just reaching out to see who is listening and can lend a kind ear and a word of support through a rough time. It’s not about superiority or ego. It’s about shrinking our enlarged community down to the true caring and interested readers that can help us help others and stay amused.

XO ILY YM