A friend of mine asked me a question today, "What is the point of blogging?" A blog is an online journal - and why do people write journals in the first place? A journal may be interpreted as a diary, or a record of the day's events. If it were to be a diary, where our deepest thoughts and feelings are jotted down, will we do the same for our blogs?
The answer is a definite no. As much as people express their thoughts and concerns over a particular matter, I am sure nobody is willing to share every single detail of their private and personal life. So why do I blog in the first place?
1) To allow my friends to know what is going on in my life. At least, snippets of it so that I won't feel so much of a stranger when I next talk to them.
2) An expression of my thoughts on certain matters, though not all, which I feel can be shared with everybody out there.
3) A place for me to vent my frustrations: I don't know how/why, I feel slightly calmer after I blog. Been keeping too many things to myself I suppose.
4) An expression of creativity.
I don't know what else there is.
First week of university life is over. I am exhausted - physically, mentally, emotionally.
No doubt you noticed that I have been feeling troubled recently, I bet my face shows it all. I wish sometimes I don't have to make decisions concerning my happiness, because it doesn't really make sense. What makes me happy now may cease to work its joyful effect on me in future. What I am doubtful about now may instead be the target of my happiness in future. Everchanging world, everchanging expectations, everchanging wants. *sigh* I wish I could stop spinning around like that.
Girl, what matters is that you must be happy. But what if it makes me sad to see others sad because of what I had done to them? Won't that be so ironic? To attain my happiness, I hurt a person, and in the end I feel the hurt as well because of what I had originally set out to achieve - happiness.
(Sounds a little like philosophy over here. Speaking of Philosophy, reading the philo notes was hell. I ended up being more confused and troubled than ever.)
And one last one. I want to get into the floorball team. I decided to ditch bowling. Please pray hard for me to enter the team.
The answer is a definite no. As much as people express their thoughts and concerns over a particular matter, I am sure nobody is willing to share every single detail of their private and personal life. So why do I blog in the first place?
1) To allow my friends to know what is going on in my life. At least, snippets of it so that I won't feel so much of a stranger when I next talk to them.
2) An expression of my thoughts on certain matters, though not all, which I feel can be shared with everybody out there.
3) A place for me to vent my frustrations: I don't know how/why, I feel slightly calmer after I blog. Been keeping too many things to myself I suppose.
4) An expression of creativity.
I don't know what else there is.
First week of university life is over. I am exhausted - physically, mentally, emotionally.
No doubt you noticed that I have been feeling troubled recently, I bet my face shows it all. I wish sometimes I don't have to make decisions concerning my happiness, because it doesn't really make sense. What makes me happy now may cease to work its joyful effect on me in future. What I am doubtful about now may instead be the target of my happiness in future. Everchanging world, everchanging expectations, everchanging wants. *sigh* I wish I could stop spinning around like that.
Girl, what matters is that you must be happy. But what if it makes me sad to see others sad because of what I had done to them? Won't that be so ironic? To attain my happiness, I hurt a person, and in the end I feel the hurt as well because of what I had originally set out to achieve - happiness.
(Sounds a little like philosophy over here. Speaking of Philosophy, reading the philo notes was hell. I ended up being more confused and troubled than ever.)
And one last one. I want to get into the floorball team. I decided to ditch bowling. Please pray hard for me to enter the team.