For some reason today I was inspired to enter the so called "blog-o-sphere". It could be that my best friend is a resident of the blog-o-sphere, or it could be that I am self involved enough to think that people are really going to be concerned with what it is that I have to say about life and the world. Either way- here I am blogging away. To me blogging is kind of mind boggling, I mean really it makes it possible for anyone in the world to put their thoughts on the internet. In some ways this scares me because- lets face it there are some thoughts that should just be kept to yourself. But it also fills me with a sense of empowerment. I mean really, here I am at 21 years old and I have access to a vehicle that allows me to share my ideas with the world. Used in the right way blogs are a great way to start a social movement. Just think what the Civil Rights movement could have been like if Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr had had blogs. It could have been global. However, at the same time I feel nostalgia for the days when people would pick up a sign and march on Washington to support their cause. Yes I know that there are groups that still have annual marches on Washington- but they are not like those of our country's past. With the advent of the internet and the "blog-o-sphere" I feel that people have found a way to support a cause without doing it publicly. Lets face it- if you want to support a cause by blogging all you have to do is create a screenname and that gives you a make shift "invisability cloak". You can speak freely without any of the back-lash which comes along with speaking your mind openly in a public place. I am just as guilty of this as anyone else. This is my first time blogging but this is not the first time I have used the internt to voice my opinion. No- I am not always voicing a political opinion via the internet, many times the opinion I give is shared with my friends and is regarding celebrities or fashion. However, an opinion is an opinion regardless of the content.
As I sit in my room writing this and reading over what I have written I am wondering- why do I feel the need to say any of the above statements? And I guess the answer to that would be that I feel better giving a voice to the thoughts in my mind. I feel lighter having got some of that off my perverbial chest. Is the world a better place because I wrote it? Well no, but I am more psychologically at peace (whatever that means?). I guess that makes me selfish, but then again returning to what I said previous- isn't that kind of what the blog-o-sphere is about? It's about publishing your thoughts so the world can read them because you think they are just that important. I feel like as far as first blog postings this one is a little heavy- have no fear I can assure all of you reading this (which could possibily be no one) that the posts to follow will probably be more light hearted then this one.
Stay tuned....
