Why blog??

Been blogging since March...must say that it's actually quite fun. In the beginning, it was actually quite difficult to put things / events / thoughts into actual words. Penning (typing) the actual words can actually be quite tedious. Sometimes the trains of thoughts are all zooming past so fast that it's hard to pin them down. And sometimes they float past and no matter how you reach out to grab them, they're just not there. But as the months went on, it actually became quite fun. The brain gets the exercise that it needs.

And my reasons for blogging have also undergone some revamps! 8) But mostly, I think it helps me remember some of the more wonderful things in my life...from the more memorable events to the little mundane things that we do ... even after just 3 months, sometimes when I click on the pages of yester-months, I'd find myself actually 'oo-oohing' & 'aa-aahing' that we did those things or that I thought of things in a certain way. We tend to forget!

Apart from friends and also maybe perhaps the few strangers who wonder into this domain of mine, I guess it also keeps the people I know (and don't know) what goes on...kinda sharing experiences and thoughts. It's always kinda nice to know that despite the differences all of us may have......we share some common grounds and experiences....and ideas. I've borrowed some ideas from others online and I get motivated too!

And oh yes...it also gets this creaky brain of mine to start learning new stuff again too. We settle too easily into a routine after some time. Somehow as we age, we become more rigid. Blogging has in a way perpetuated continuous learning in me. I find myself reading more into other people's thoughts and also what goes around my world and the world beyond. In short...I trying to push in as much mileage into this otherwise under utilized gray matter.

One more thing, it also helps create a real time-line for me and my loved ones. It's kinda nice to actually access one's thoughts back in time. This can be likened to what journal keeping does for us but a blog post is more dynamic....plus because you put in online, you tend to watch what you write...kinda like life. We have to watch what we say, how we act...to keep that equilibrium.

It also makes me more willing to stop by and look at things....pause a moment and take in all the events that happen around us. Otherwise, i usually would find them too troublesome.....excuses being...too many people, hot, uncomfortable, etc., etc...

And who knows, someday, some historian in the future may use what I have recorded as a source of his research. He! He! If the historians of the last century depended a lot on archeological digs to piece the lives of those who preceded us, I think the historians of the future will be digging through pages and pages of blogs and web content for insights to how we think and live. That is assuming this world that we know makes it that far! History is after all made up of perceptions, assumptions and conclusions formed from the primary and secondary sources. It's our stories....put together!

And lately, I have also started putting in adverts....in case the few wanderers are mouse-clicking friendly and start clicking away on them...I get a few cents here and there. So faster click-click on the adverts.... 8)

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