Blogging on Blogging

I don’t know who invented this word blog. I googled the origin of blog everywhere including Wikipedia, all to no avail. One site suggests that the word blog takes from weblog: we(blog). However, I like to believe the word blog comes from blah log: (bl)ah+l(og). It's only fitting if that's how the word blog came into being.

Just as all the movies have ratings and some TV shows such as "24" and "No Reservations" have the "Viewer's discretion is required" warnings, here are some disclaimers about my blah logs - blogs:

- It's typing not writing. I don't have a typing certificate to prove it but I type relatively fast. My typing skills might have deteriorated over the years but even at the lowered speed (probably instead of 70 wpm, it's in the 50 wpm range), it's impossible to multi-task to include thinking. So I give away thinking to typing when I blog.

- "It’s not you. It’s me" – My blogs are for my own personal indulgings only. They represent partly my own opinions or thought flows at the time when I type, which may or may not evolve over time. Therefore, I can not solemnly swear I'm telling the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. I'm not interested in, nor qualified for taking upon the role of informing, inspiring, or educating you as the readers. If you dislike or disagree with anything I say in my blogs, remember I'm not blogging to you. It's me, myself and I that I blog to.

- I am not serious with blogs. I can not make myself serious, seriously. I am easily amused, even at the occasions where I'm not supposed to. That's why I've been afraid of attending funeral ceremonies since I was a child. Laughing was indeed an improper behavior at occasions like that but serious people do amuse me. I concluded that all my sufferings all boil down to the moments when I forget NOT to be too serious.

- Blah unlimited. I'm glad that blog is in the forum of unlimited monologue. Twitter is a form of monologue but it has a 140 character limit. Facebook also has the character limit. I don't think blogger sites have a length limit for a blog post. So far none of my blogs have been bumped unfinished in spite of the length. I have heard the saying "Brevity is the soul of wit". But for someone who is not aiming high for the soul or the wit, length is all I've got and length does its work for me. Lengthy blogging takes the same therapeutic cure as seeing a shrink. Blogging is a self therapy, a much cheaper (free is cheap enough) means of releasing dung. Hopefully, with length, depth will come.

- It's not a popularity contest. With Twitter, you are a loner suspect if you follow 1000 people but only 100 of them follow you back. With Facebook, besides being a loner suspect if you only have fewer than 1000 friends, you also run into a loser suspect if no one interacts with your newsfeeds by commenting or liking back.Blogging does not make you feel like a loner or a loser if there are no followers, no comments, or no viewers. Even if it's just for the people, by the people and of the people, the people in this case is just me, from me, to me, and for me. Finally, I have a place to save grace, thanks to blogging.