Starting Fresh

 I have been playing with the idea of a blog for a while now. I even started one last summer. I think I put up about five posts that nobody read before I was tapped. I couldn’t come up with a topic, let alone something to say. This time may be no different, but I am going to take a different approach. When blogs first started, they were mostly just online journals. When I was a teenager, everybody had a Myspace page with a blog automatically there. Some people used them to post silly games. Others actually used them as journals. Then, the internet blew up. I’m not completely sure when it happened, but today everything is on the internet. You can find friends, jobs, even relationships online. Blogs were not immune to this surge of popularity. Today, budding journalists start them, movie critics write them, and all major companies have them. Even college professors use blogs. When looking into information about applying to law school, I was directed to blogs where professors of top schools answered questions of prospective students. Blogs are everywhere. So of course, it’s easy to have one right? Wrong. Sure, it is easy to start one. There are tons of free websites where you can get an account and just start writing. I even did this in a class once. We kept a blog on a free site that the professor checked every week. If you want to seem a bit more professional, you can buy a web domain so you have your own site. It is fairly cheap and rather easy. Websites make it easy for you to get your own blog if you want one. But they can’t help you maintain one. Actually keeping a blog is not as easy as you might think. There are many things to consider. For example, what are you going to write about? Most, if not all, blogs have a theme or common thread/topic. Sure, you could stick to the original online journal concept, but who is going to want to read that? And that is another thing to consider; how do you get followers. What is the point of putting things online if nobody is going to read them? If you need to type up your thoughts and feelings just for yourself then you can simply create an ongoing Word document on your computer. If you put it into cyber space, that means you want it to be shared. Everybody knows once something is on the internet it can never come off. There is a record of everything somewhere.  So you have to make something other people want to read; which means you have to make it presentable. There are of course templates to help, but it is still just one more thing to think about. There is more I’m sure, but this has become a rambling and that wasn’t my intention. My point is simply that it is really hard to write a blog. With that being said, this is my first post on my newest attempt to write one. I am going against my own theory and not selecting a specific topic. While I have used a template to add life to the page, I am not going to concern myself with followers. Should people decide to read it, then that is awesome. However I am going to be like Buddha and follow a middle path. While this will not be an online journal where I tell you about my feelings, it also will not be all that informative. It might chronicle my life as I figure out my future as well as deal with the responsibilities of being a young woman living in a big city. I am not going to pigeon hole it or make any promises about it. This time, the blog is just going to be about throwing my thoughts into the universe and seeing where that takes me. Hopefully I can maintain it better than the last. Wish me luck and stay tuned to see what weird things I come up with to say.