Jumping in with both feet

Greetings to anyone who has stumbled onto this blog and is curious enough to keep reading.

Before I finally decided to jump off the end of the dock and join the community of bloggers, I stayed in the background and just watched the phenomenon. I've been reading a number of blogs—some regularly, some not so regularly and some never again—and my reactions have run the full gamut from fascination at an idea and total agreement with a sentiment to disappointment at the shallowness of a thought and regret about time wasted and lost forever.

So why do people do this blogging thing anyway? I believe that (for now) I should try to answer that question for me alone and keep my theories about the motivations of others to myself.

First off, I am NOT writing a blog for any of the following reasons:
a) sharing a personal diary has been a life-long dream

b) a soapbox for my political rants is the only thing missing from my plan for world domination

c) I'm a famous celebrity and this is the only way I can say something as a member of hoi polloi.

To move on to why I am writing a blog:
a) I find myself reading the news or listening to news on the radio and wondering why the story ended where it did or why a certain question was not asked or why do I have this bad taste in my mouth. Other times, I watch the world around me and I am stunned or amazed by an event I was unfortunate or fortunate enough to witness. I think a blog is an excellent medium with which to participate in a conversation since I'm not about to start a conversation with a total stranger in a coffee shop. There is a comforting level of anonymity inherent in the blog world.

b) every daily journal I've ever started has gone blank about three days into the venture and I feel guilty about having wasted the paper I scribbled on. The tech gene is strong in me (compared to some) and perhaps the digital aspect of a blog will motivate me to keep it up and keep thinking about things I need to think about some more in order to reach an individual resolution.

c) I have no item to type here. I just wanted to maintain the symmetry and have three reasons why not and three reasons why these blog-bytes exist.

That's all for now. I doubt I've filled in a gap that needed filling but I'm feeling all giddy nevertheless.