Blogs are alive
I read the People and Blogs interview with Patrick Rhone. I love how he describes personal blogging:
...that’s exactly what a blog should be - a reflection of one’s interests and attention over time. A reflection of who one is right now and where they’ve been. Blogs are living things that should grow at the same rate we do.
I totally agree, and at the same time, I’m terrible at living up to it myself. Or at least I have been in the past.
I’ve deleted both posts and entire blogs that “don’t feel like me” anymore. I've acted on some deluded idea of having found a permanent me, a person who will remain the same from now on and forever.
It’s an illusion, of course. The only thing permanent is change. The person writing this text is gone the moment I hit “Publish”.
That’s the beauty of life. We experience, we evolve, and we become a new person again and again and again. If not, we might as well be dead and gone.
Given my somewhat messy blogging history, I’m a bit afraid of saying this out loud. On the other hand, maybe that’s exactly why I should do it:
I have a good feeling about this blog sticking around.