By Bea Dewberry- I'm new to the blogger world and, after a scroll through the neighborhood, I realize that we bloggers have something in common - we like attention (even if we don't want to admit it to the rest of you), and we're deep.
Attention seekers will take it any way they can get it - negative, positive, who cares, just give it. I saw one blogspot with mostly pictures. Every aspect of this man's life was revealed, right down to the penis-shaped birthday cake someone made him.
For some folks blogging lets the internal voice scream: "Hey world I have something to say and, by the way, you may learn something here." One woman's blog stood out: She detailed every aspect of her pending nuptials. She wrote about holding back her fear of marriage and her future with a man she wasn't sure she even loved. She had three followers. I venture to guess her fiancee wasn't one of them.
Many bloggers I ran into are moms who wrote quirky things about their children. They see the innate wisdom of our young. They explore the way we live in a world where we teach our babies how to "grow up" and be "a man," or "act like a lady," and, yet, in some ways our earnest teachings rob them of the innocence we admire, the common sense we lack, and their ability to see the beauty in the little things we overlook.
Some bloggers just have way too much time on their hands (who cares about breeding iguanas), while others complained of no time at all, post after post after post. Ironic huh. Some are political, spiritual, techno. Almost all are creative.
My conclusion, if it matters at all, is we bloggers want the rest of you to listen. We have something to say and someplace, somewhere at least one of you is going to to get it. We want you to see our value. Agree with our politics. Love our kids. Laugh with us. Smile a lot. Be informed. Relate. Explore. Learn. To appreciate us. To feel our pain and experience our joy. To go deep with us.
As for me, I'll share my philosophy on finding the sweetness in life, even in the midst of chaos, turmoil, hardship, pain, and a series of sour-milk-moments ... you get what I'm saying. I say this scripture often, "As a (wo)man thinketh, so shall he go." I believe it. I'll explore more of that later. Guess I've arrived to the blogging block. About to take out my shovel, and go deep.
