Blogging

Blog Like You Mean It

It feels refreshing, it feels like I am being heard. To write a blog is simple, to write one for purpose is a completely different story. I believe that blogging reflects our unconscious, and what I mean by that is we speak our minds, without really knowing we're revealing much at all. It's a scary thought to most, but for me, it's refreshing.

The public judges people by their appearance, an audience judges blogs by their words. In those words you can describe yourself, someone else, a situation or event, but none the less you are putting your opinion on a billboard that anyone can click the link to. Such importance can show your strengths or your faults, and in writing you show yourself. What makes a good writer? What makes a good blogger? Myths are found in literature everyday, blogs are not about tricking people, but using the power of language to prove a point, to raise a discussion or a question."Even objects will become speech if they mean something"(Barthes 1).

Chuck Klosterman is familiar with the concept of questioning. In his book "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" he goes into intimate details of what makes us think, what makes us ask the hard stuff. Not once have I ever been afraid to say what I feel, but many times I have been afraid of what people think of my feelings. Klosterman is one of those people who isn't afraid to speak his mind. "Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends...unless they're sexy." (Klosterman 6). Blogs are an expression of ideas and mind games, the ideas are what provoke people to continue reading, and the games provoke them to ask why. I am now officially a public figure that is contributing to the public, and it feels good.

Works Cited

Barthes, Roland. "Mythologies." Turk's head review. Web. 07 Oct. 2009. .

Klosterman, Chuck. Sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs a low culture manifesto. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.