3 - What is a blog?

"20. Write about an incident that illustrates shyness. "

“The monster came and attacked him. Then he fought an alien and died in the battlefield. Then he flied to the heavens and then died again.” Sounds like it was wrote by a five year old. A lot of people would probably laugh if they read this and would think that it is too childish. This is one reason why others don’t really write or don’t finish their stories. If I was in this situation and my friends suddenly read this, the more likely possible happening is that I will be laugh at. Some more instances if it was in a different scenario, I would be beat up because of what I have written. Some people don’t really like to write anymore because of anxiety and more likely the immense situation of what the future will bring to them. They already thought that something bad will happen to them if they wrote something they really like. I am getting off topic here; I’ll just come back to the question.

So I have been thinking a lot about what I have been doing about this blog. I checked through my stuff and notice that all of these do not really define me or my interests. Asking me, it’s more of what you think than what it is about you. What have I been doing with this blog? To be deeper, what IS a blog? That made me search through the internet and saw what a blog is. As it turns out, a blog is an online diary. Is it a diary like what you have done for the past day or week? Then I thought that I was doing the wrong thing after all. I should have been making blogs that says what happened to me. But I wasn’t sure enough so I asked my friends.

Here are some of the things that they said...

“It’s a hard question.”

“It’s an online diary.”

“It’s where you write your speeches.”

“It’s a word.”

“Ask Pam.”

“Just search it on the net.”

“Yolo” (That was me)

Originally, blogs are meant for things that have happened to you and writing about that certain object that you have encountered like an online diary. Basically, I have been doing it wrong… that is if it was back like 1990’s or when the blog things started. Nowadays, blog is used to write any topic and talk about them. A lot of people enjoyed them that some people do vlog (Video blogs) and it was freedom. But the problem is that the people who write blogs don’t want to write anymore and I think the first paragraph would explain that. I am not really fond of writing blogs and I never was. The fact remains is that we need to write blogs for our course. Why don’t I like to write blogs? It’s because I don’t want to discuss my life much to strangers or to people I don’t want to or more likely I don’t want people to criticize me. A blog is where you write the things happened to you or what you have experienced. What if they knew about your darkest secrets and suddenly got bullied because of that? What if you suddenly got stalked because of what you wrote about yourself? What if you suddenly hurt someone because you destroyed their reputation about them? That’s why I am not really fond of blogs and that’s one of the main reasons why I don’t participate, I get shy because of what the people would do.

                But that doesn’t mean I hate blogs, the fact that I am still writing isn't because it's required to our course but it’s because I enjoyed it. Yes, you heard me, I enjoyed writing blogs though it's time consuming too. I later realized that a blog is not just about yourself but it is also about what you want to write about to connect with people who would like to relate to you and maybe let them connect with other people too. Not because you want to ruin their reputation or something but because you want to inform your readers what you are interested in. I would think that a lot of people are making fun of me right now though some of the things I wrote here are funny (the fact that some actually are unless you don’t think it’s funny buy her, YOLO, right?). But hey, at least you enjoyed writing. We all started as noobs and some of us wrote strange stories or drew strange monsters and aliens when we were little or a little younger. Don’t let them lead to your downfall; let their responses help you to become a better writer. Let their responses push you forward not just within your limits but in theirs too.

                It is up to you now. Will you stop writing because of the people around you or will you keep writing and see how much you will accomplish?