Why anyone would want to pour out their innermost feelings and chuck them up onto a website for the whole world to see is beyond me. Why don't you just type it in a Word document or something? Do you really want everyone to know why you were having a bad day, or is that just for FaceBook so you can get sympathetic comments? Well, you know what word is in sympathetic? Yeah. Pathetic. I really don't get why people would want to publish a journal, unless...
- The journal's author is dead (think Anne Frank and Ayn Rand).
- You are not afraid of embarrassment.
- Your life is so interesting that someone told you that you should publish your journal, and you believe them.
- The embarrassing pieces have been removed from your journal.
- You are the most famous person on the planet and you are publishing your life story so you can avoid a bunch of interviews, and writing a memoir/autobiography is too hard.
- It's a publicity stunt.
- Someone stole your journal and decided to publish it for fun (resulting in numerous tears and backlashes and angry words).
Okay, so maybe the last one is a bit far-fetched.
Anyway, after all that ranting about why an online journal is such a bad idea, you might be wondering why I'm even making a blog.
Part of the reason is reason #4 for publishing a journal. I am not going to record a single embarrassing moment here, as if it were a real journal. Nope. I might talk about what is going to happen in my life, though, but I need you to understand that that is entirely different from an embarrassing moment. Another part of the reason is that I need somewhere to type out my feelings and make some sense of them, because I don't like typing my feelings down in a Word document. It feels too impersonal, as if I was writing it for an English class assignment.
So I welcome you to my thoughts. I hope you don't find them too repulsive.
1 comment:
First "young person" I know to cite Ayn Rand. I'm impressed.
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