Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Still Have The Need To Continue This?
It's funny but my mood has been up and down lately. I'll just say that I've been dealing with some issues in my personal life that have left me restless and a bit on edge lately. Nothing too major, just the things you're sometimes faced with in life. Some things that I'd really love to write about and get off my chest, and some that I wouldn't. It's these types of things which led me to keeping a personal journal in the past. I would scribble some notes down, get my thoughts in order, put my feelings in check, deal with my issues and move on. I know that in the past, for me, writing has always held some sort of therapeutic value. I've not kept a physical journal in years, as my blog had slowly replaced that need in some small way. That is until recently.
I've had so many thoughts running through my head that I'm once again feeling the need to write things down and obtain the value of self-therapy that writing offers me, but I'm not sure that blogging about them for the world to read is exactly the appropriate forum for me at the moment.
Over the past few weeks I've actually started to question if I was going to continue with this blog or my website. I know it seems a bit cliche in the blogosphere to one day call it quits and have this big farewell because you no longer have a desire to blog. It's only cliche because so many people have done so only to come back in the very near future once they've found some new motivation to write. I realize this and realize that as my moods change so will my desire to write or not write, and that's why I've never had my farewell party, and ultimately talk myself out of the desire to shut it all down when I get in that mood.
I've read some articles about how blogging has fallen by the wayside and with the introduction of all the rampant social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, there is no need for blogs anymore because while they once provided an outlet for people to read about you and your life, the same information can be obtained by other means. I disagree, because while on Facebook you might read about what I'm doing at the moment, my mood or who most recently added me as a friend, you don't get any of the insight into my soul as a person that my writing provides.
Anyway as I re-read this post now I realize I probably have no point here except to subtly point out that my life has been changing and I've been questioning myself, but I suppose that's nothing new, you probably could have figured all that out from my Facebook profile. So do I still have the need to continue this? I guess we'll see. Cheers!
I completely agree with you about blogging vs Facebook. When I go to a blog to read up what's new in my friends' lives I get the total picture. Some of my friends are on Facebook and when I check in there, pretty much all I might get (besides some updated pictures from their albums) is a one-line statement like "Boy today was stressful" or "I am happy today"... I don't get anything out of Facebook really.
Rich I'm glad that you don't just take the "popular" route and shut the blog down when you haven't much to blog about for a time. Keeping it up and running understanding that you'll most likely be back soon is a better alternative, at least until (if) you decide one day that you really don't wish to blog at all anymore.
I for one would sure miss you here! You're one of my regular reads, dude. Even if at first (a long time ago) I "didn't think I liked you". LOL!
Whatever the changes are that you are experiencing in your life right now, I trust that it's all a part of growing and that you are doing okay. Stay well!
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Jude @ Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:26:00 AM
