There’s so much I cannot comprehend about blogging. We post entries into some blog (read: hyped-up Internet journal) supposedly for ourselves to chart and rant, mostly because we’re now too lazy to pick up a pen and write on paper. This comes from the understanding that because this is online and public, someone might stumble across it, read it, and feel somehow moved by what it contains.
If you’re here for that kind of substance, read someone else’s blog. Mindless politicians have more usefulness than I do.
I’m the type that gets embarrassed at things I’ve done in the past, even though I can barely remember the act of doing said things and I can hardly change it now anyway. But this is why I will never re-read this entry after a year or so from now. Therefore, this is even more pointless. The only people who will read this will be my stalkers after I’ve become famous, or an archaeologist stuck sorting through every page of porn and blog that’s ever existed after some idiot stumbles upon an artifact called “the Internet” two thousand years from now.
But don’t get me wrong, I love the futility of it. I’ve had a Livejournal for over three years now. It’s been a paid account, a free account, a neglected account, and something doted over for hours until the CSS is completely correct and I’m happy with it for another few weeks. I made friends I’d never even met; in fact, a large portion of my life is spent guilty about those friends, as I’ve lost contact with them all one by one as they all went to college (Angela), hit on me (Leif), or were upset that I had a real life (Rachel). But it’s been a strangely important step in my life.
So what are the upsides of blogging? For one, it’s fairly therapeutic. If there’s one thing that pleasures the human mind, it’s useless activities, like sticking Peeps in the microwave or doing an entire book of Sudoku. Somehow, blogging makes one feel useful in the same way that putting albums in alphabetical order by band and chronologically by date makes one feel useful. Librarians are important, but in the vast scheme of things, the Dewey Decimal System is meaningless; it will not stand up to the test of time.
And neither will the endless sea of blogs.
