Ahh, the blogging craze...

So, the blog thing seems to be the "in thing" to be doing lately. I can completely understand its attraction myself. A place where you can put down all your thoughts and opinions like your own personal newspaper for all to view. The World Wide Web offers us so many outlets for our imagination, I guess this is just another way to do it.

As much as I like to write and find the written word an easier way to express myself, I find a part of me fearing to share too much; to open up fully. Once I would have freely done so, without thought of how the knowledge and information I gave could make me vulnerable. Now, in some ways, I am afraid to. I don't want to feel that vulnerable, to give someone the power to hurt me. Yet what is life without taking risks? Boring if you ask me. So, my goal for this blogging deal is to post daily. I need an outlet for my thoughts, be they on the side of suicidal or on the side of lunacy. I need to vent them somewhere, so why not here?

For me, this will be a place to share things that happen in my life; thoughts and ideas that have been running through my mind. It is hard, because sometimes I can shut them off, other times I can't. Perhaps blogging on a daily basis will help me with some of those thoughts and ideas and put them into perspective. Mostly I just put in words thoughts or feelings I'm experiencing at any given moment. Sometimes they are angry, happy, sad, or downright pathetic. Sometimes they even seem a little... insane. But, they are my thoughts and feelings none-the-less.

I don't expect any reply to entries I make viewable to the public, though they are welcomed and looked forward to. My philosophy has always been that I would much rather be hurt with honesty than to be misled with lies or deceit. A song that encompasses this belief is by Good Charlotte called Truth. Whatever the reaction people have, I have promised myself that I am not going to hold back.