Blogging For Boring People

Maybe not. If I were someone besides myself reading my blog, I think I'd be kind of bored by it. I'm not so cool after all; I don't really have anything good to say. Maybe I'm just as boring as everyone else and since I don't embellish, exaggerate or lie, I will never sound as cool as those who do. Maybe that's really how it is. Maybe all of these blogs, journals, and diaries are just exposing boring lives.

But really, I don't think it is that way at all. I think there is much more to blogging, journaling, or diarrhea (err, diarying? - hmmm...) than just exposing mundane lives. I don't think it matters if I'm boring (or if anyone else is for that matter). I think blogs, journals, and diaries don't have to be exciting, super-insightful, interesting or even intelligible. I think they are magic no matter how mundane.

The magic lies in two things. One, it feels good to write about yourself. And two, it's nice to read what someone else thinks about life - no matter how boring, mundane, or downright silly that life is. The magic lies in the fact that we are all human, most of us lead incredibly boring lives, and all of us are doing it together. But in person, hardly any of us talk about it.

Of course we tell our partners about our day, we talk to our folks or our kids about their activities, but we never get to hear (or read) about total strangers. We never get to see that our neighbors are just like us. Blogs give us this insight. Online journals make this connection.

So I see that I don't need to have something witty or funny to say everyday. I don't need to be exciting or even that interesting. I just need to express myself and be read by someone who doesn't know me. The rest is automagic.