food for thought?

The lack of updates on my blog, what does it mean? Does it mean that my blog is no longer a place where I provide daily accounts on my life? Does it mean that I only provide an update when there is something I want to say or something provocative? A blog is like a diary, a place where u write down events so that one day, you can look back and relive the events. I thought to myself, do I really want to look back five years later and think how stupid it was of me to tell everyone what I did on a particular day which included meeting up with friends, what my friends said, what my teachers did, what assignment I’m doing, where I went out, what time I came back from work and I could go on and on. Do people really want to know all that? NO. then I think of blogs where people do really give a daily account of what happened that day. Are these people that lame? Do I really need to know what they ate that afternoon? Are these the things that they think are important? That they think of nothing else but these trivial matters?

Of course, a blog is a place where one can practice freedom of speech. It’s a personal and private space where you can say whatever you want, however stupid it is. But when you say it’s a private space, how private can it be when you blog is up for millions of others to read? Can you really say that “I can write whatever I want because this is MY blog and I can say whatever I want without bothering about anything else.”? Could a supposed trivial matter in your opinion leave a big impact on the rest of society? Would a seemingly harmless comment be a big insult to others? What then justifies the things a person writes in a blog? Then again, who decides who justifies what?

I have decided that my blog will no longer be an update on what happened on a particular day or week. I have decided that by providing a detailed account of what happened in my life is pointless and LAME. I will only post something if I was intrigued in a certain matter and a lack of updates doesn’t mean I do not think, just that there aren’t many matters that provoked my thinking.