One of the other reasons I started this blog….I see a lot of people who seem to utilize facebook to share all their views whether they are political, religious, lifestyle, parenting, etc or they use it to gripe and complain.  Personally I’ve been tempted several times over to “go there” because I do like to “talk” about these things and get into lively debate  conversation, however I have some pretty strong feelings about how I think facebook should be used and it just doesn’t feel like the right time nor place.  I’m unsure at this early stage who I will share my blog with, I’m okay with perfect strangers reading it for now, it’s the people that know me that I’m actually a little unsure about and I can’t exactly give them the heave-ho after the fact so probably best that I wait to see what kind of shape this is going to take.

When I was trying to choose a domain name for my blog, and trying to sound clever I found that every name that I chose had already been taken.  My initial reaction was positive, as if it validated that I was “on to something” and that I was “as clever as” some other blogger out there.  But after multiple tries my ego started to take a bit of a beating

because what it really confirmed was what I’ve always expected; I’m unoriginal, not all that clever, more or less like everyone else and the world is gigantic and I’m but a speck.  But can we just pretend that I really AM as clever as I imagine myself to be, that my thoughts are original and profound and that one day my blog will be read and loved by (going for modesty) hundreds.  The truth is I’ve started this blog because I feel like I need an outlet, that hopefully it will work like a light switch whereby my thoughts will finally quiet down once I type them out and hit “Publish” and I can just “be”.  Or maybe I really do need medication.