Vim Quietude

First times for everything.

So, as there should be some content on the site before I start telling people about it, it's time for my first real post.

But what to write about? I might as well start with what I think of this blog and blogs in general.

I don't know how many people have these blogs on blogspot/blogger but there are apparently over 6 and a half million people with livejournals, with about 2.6 million of them active. That's a pretty intimidating number, for a few reasons. First is the thought of being one voice in millions and millions. Second is that apparently about 1 in 2.5 people abandon their blogs. And that's just the stats over at livejournal.

I'm used to being such a small voice as no one pays attention to me anyway. Luckily I like to listen to myself talk so that gives this blog at least one purpose. The thing that bothers me most of all is the quitting thing, as I don't wanna quit thinking about things and talking (mostly to myself, if need be) about them. I suppose the number of inactive blogs shouldn't surprise me. After all, people have been writing dairies/journals long before the internet was even fathomable, and they've been quitting writing those too.

Quite frankly, the hardest thing about this blog is probably going to be just having something to write from time to time. It seems odd, after all the human mind is capable of so many things. It's complex and needy and in addition there's way too much around in the world not to have an opinion or observation about. It seems silly to either not have anything to talk about or not be able to think of something interesting. But it happens way more often than not, apparently, especially on dates.

So what's the deal with all these droppings? I'd imagine lack of interest. I doubt I'll get a lot of comments on what I write, and overall it doesn't seem that important. Well, it's probably not important at all in any perspective you might come up with, but I don't do a lot of what I do based on importance. Perhaps I should change that just a little. But anyway, that's my theory. If it's not important, one less thing to do.

Such an attitude ruins the purpose of speaking. I think we'd all be better off as monks meditating. We'd certainly be a lot more peaceful. As it stands, I think this blog could become a very nice way for people who wanna to keep in touch with me since it's very hard to call or e-mail someone you kinda knew for a few years in school or work just to catch up and chitchat, especially if you have no ulterior motives to go along with it. So that's it. Once a month or so you can see how I'm doing. Say hi while you're at it.

This thing could also be a good way to start off a career as a stand-up comedian. The only problem is that you can't re-use any material you post on this blog, as it's not exactly a small venue. Which is kinda odd to think about as I insinuated that very few people are gonna read this thing.

So yeah, now I gotta worry about dressing this blog up a little. I hope to find someplace to put up some poetry or scripts, and maybe have a few extras all over the place. Perhaps one of them mood indicators. I wonder if everything I write is owned by blogspot or something. I don't think I have any legal rights to it or anything like that. I'll figure it out later.

posted by Deriser @ 2:47 AM