Write About This

I sometimes share my blogs with people I know and let them read what I write.  When I do, there is the inevitable comment that always pops up, "You should write about this" and some topic they are interested in.

First off, I appreciate the sentiment, and I am always open to ideas, suggest whatever you want, I will think about.  That's not me being flippant, that's an honest remark, I will actually think about any idea that people suggest.  However that doesn't mean that I would write about it.

This blog serves a purpose, as do my others.  They each have a specific "need" that they fulfil for me personally.  They essentially serve as creative outlets for ideas and for thoughts that are rolling around in my head which I write down in an effort to process them and give them structure.  Everything I write about is something that has been floating around in my head and has given me a lot to think about.  When it comes to ideas that other people suggest for me to write about, the real determining factor is whether or not that idea hangs around in my head or not.  I write about things that I have opinions on, or things that I feel a certain way about.  Often when other people suggest things to me to write about, they are things that I either know nothing about or things which I don't actually have an opinion on - I know that might be hard to believe but it is actually true.  I don't form an opinion on everything in life, there are many things I see and find curious but simply stand back and watch.

There are some things too though that I choose not to write about, even though I do have opinions on them, and for the most part they are issues where I know my point of view is contentious or controversial and that most people probably wouldn't want to hear it.  Likewise I know that some opinions if expressed would attract certain people I don't want to attract.  To give an example, I tend to avoid going into specific issues when it comes to Politics, my commentary when it comes to politics remains to be somewhat generalized.  That's not because I am trying to hide my point of view on policies it's just quite simply that I don't want this to be a political blog, if it became that it would attract specific readers who would be here for politics alone and have no interest in anything else.  There is also the fact that any time anyone ever expresses a political opinion about anything online it almost always descends into an argument usually with people you don't even know who never engaged with you before - those and the endless cacophony of bots that have been programmed to seek out key political terms and post nonsensical arguments about them.

There is no overarching theme on this blog, there is no common thread to every post, there really isn't anything that ties it all together apart from me as a person and the fact that everything here is an expression of my thoughts and my observations.  I made that decision consciously so that this blog would attract a wide variety of readers rather than readers that only came and read posts about a specific topic.  Add to that the fact that much of this blog is a form of self-therapy and what I write is as much for me as anyone else.  Even if nobody ever read a single post on here it would still serve a purpose for me personally and still be useful.  I would still write posts for it and I would still go back and read them every now and then as they give me an insight as to how my thought process evolves and how certain things consumed my mind at the time.