Is anybody blogging anymore?
It feels like a stupid time to start blogging. Like that ship has sailed. Yet here I am with my steamer trunks like I'm actually going somewhere. But I'm late to the dock. People I want to follow all seem to have stopped blogging years ago. Most of the information I've seen about blogging is for entrepreneurs hoping to make a buck off their content. I hear people complain about being overlooked by the algorithms. It seems like anyone hoping to start a blog these days should accept that nobody is ever going to read their stuff.
The thing is, I need this. My mind is a jumble of thoughts and dream projects, and ideas that I think are clever - and it kills me to think that after springing to my awareness, that they will just sink back again into the obscurity of my subconscious maybe never be seen again. Or just as bad, keep poking their heads above water as clever yet unfinished ideas to taunt me and remind me of how little I've ever done. I need a place to put it all down. To record it. To look at it objectively, and maybe build on it.
Well, if that is all I want, I suppose there is nothing to stop me. Does it really matter if anyone sees this, if that is all I want? I guess not. But it would still be nice to think a person could put themselves out there and be known by someone who reads what they wrote. I'd like to think that might still happen.
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