All This and a Hot Turkey Sandwich too…
As I was preparing dinner last night, yes, preparing rather than cooking, (we had the dreaded post-Thanksgiving Open Faced Turkey sandwiches) I was thinking about blogging. I use time, like most of us do (I think), when I am doing things with my hands or driving, to think about totally unrelated things I am otherwise too “busy” to think about. I wonder, if any of your other bloggers out there consider whether or not what you feel compelled to write about might offend the general stranger, or regular reader for that matter. I’ve found that there’s been a few times I wanted to write about certain things either about how I feel on a subject or on something that happened that I chose not to, merely because I might upset someone whom I’ve never met, or because I might offend one of the acquaintances I’ve made in my short blogging journey.
This led to a whole other train of thought, am I subverting a piece of me and concealing the “real” me, through omission of topics that might be less than neutral? And after all, shouldn’t blogging be a “release” of some sort for the blogger? Of course, I have visited other blogs where the author CLEARLY could care less what the reader thinks of them or their beliefs. I find that to be a bit harsh. I’ve found that people that seem to visit my blog on a regular basis come from all sorts of backgrounds, Christian, Wiccan, cat lovers, cats themselves, Moms, normal people, etc. I find it interesting that I would feel sad if I ever sad anything to make people angry. That being said, I also think that my blog is a bit more bland and mundane than it would be if I just wrote about stuff I felt or was thinking, from an un-censored heart.
So I pose the question to you…do you write unapologetically whatever you feel like writing? Or do you ever find yourself reining yourself in?
November 30th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
I totally KNEW no one was listening to me!