Always look on the bright side of .....

Blogging - why do we do it?

I know this question has been asked before.

I like to write.  I love words.  I like to use them to relate happenings.  Present, past and sometimes plans for the future. Most of all I want to make my readers smile.   For some of us that is what blogging is.

I kept a diary, every day, from the age of ten till I was in my late thirties.  As I was the only reader all my feelings went down in ink and it did not matter what I said.  There is a box in the garage full of my diaries.  I aim to burn them.  

My blog does not relate the bad things, the nasty things in life, because that is what I choose, or otherwise, to publish.  My diaries were/are private.  Blogging, for me, is showing the light side of my life and seeing laughter and joy in what I am involved in.  It cheers me to put that slant on my life and I hope it cheers others.

Other bloggers preach.  A way of life. (I have practised frugality most of my life due to necessity, but even then I laughed about it.)

Many bloggers show us beautiful things they have created.  (Mine, not so beautiful, but what the hell. They are created.)

Inspire us. (Will natures creations do?)

Some just make us feel guilty. (Laughing about stuff others feel very seriously about - sorry.)

But we have the choice, we can read the blogs, or we choose not to.

We encourage comments.  Sometimes we get comments that are hurtful, spiteful, or just what we did not want to hear.  But then, we have the delete button do we not.

Once you decide to write a blog you have to take all this on board.  And more.....

I was sitting in a roomful of people recently and was reprimanded loudly and publicly for something I had written in one of my blogs. 
(Half the room dissolved into laughter on hearing what I had written.)  

This was by someone who actually stated she had never read my blog!  Two, or three haven't spoken to me since, and made life in that area so particularly uncomfortable and unpleasant .  Just wish I had had a delete button!

For some time I wondered what on earth I was doing trying to entertain, inform, tell the world about all the wonderful people I mix with (well nearly all); the vibrancy of people who many of the younger generation would be amazed at, in their volunteering, crafting, artistic effort, recycling total rubbish into beautiful pieces of art and so on.  Should I just go back into a hole and write, dear diary, and not share the wonderful things and people around me?  Being told off like a naughty child in the classroom shook me to the core.  Me being me, I made a joke about it...... but felt like jelly.  


So beware fellow bloggers.  That sense of humour could be the death of you.

But then, Always look on the bright side of death. (Please god I havent upset anybody.)