I recently discussed with a friend, “if I had a blog, what would I even put in it?”
After little debate we concluded our posts would easily be categorized into the following three categories:
-Hey, look at me. I'm somewhere cool, check it out while you surf the internet at your shitty 9-5 or between/during university classes. Let me shove my “great adventures” down your throat while you plod along through your daily routine.
-Something that happened recently pissed me off, I'm soooo angry I'm going to use the internet as a place to shout and vent. I don't care if you don't care what I have to say, I'll probably use a catchy post title to pull you in and waste 5 minutes of your life anyways.
-Detailing a boring story about a minor event that occurred earlier that day/week, but is the most interesting thing in recent memory and therefore worthy of a post, only to show our readers how hopelessly useless and lame our lives are (holy run-on).
I think I can add other type of post I will shove in my blog and force upon you.
-I find this internet link interesting, so you should too. Here, have a look at it. OK, move along.
Now, another decision to make early on with my online rants, is how specific do I want to be? I would love to be one of those people that have a blog with their real full names and pictures with their faces accenting and explaining posts. But... I have found the blogs I enjoy reading the most are the ones without any censorship. I can't talk about all of the crazy shit that may happen if I know my mom and younger cousins are reading my dribble. So how do I satisfy my ego if I can't send my link to everyone in my email address list hoping they'll care enough to read it here and there and actually even comment on it once in a while?
I believe the answer is to send my link to a few people that I think can handle whatever I may end up writing about without disowning me or un-friending me on Facebook. Here is a disclaimer friends-that-I-give-this-link-to, I may say some pretty offensive things. I am not talking about explicit or racist (although judging by the other Korea related TESOL/TEFL blogs out there, I may have to take that back), I am referring to cold, blunt comments about you, yea you. Most likely I will not call any individuals out, but I will lump you all together and say how I was pretty sure I had mentally conditioned myself to hop a plane and never see you again, without much grief. You do you, and I'll do me, somewhere else. I hope none of you are offended by this, because that is how life IS.
A few months ago I asked a coworker how she was able to pack up and move eight or so states a way (I'm not going to look at a map and count). She told me what I already knew, but needed to hear. If I avoid life experiences that force me to leave the state and stay in my hometown burning the candle at the office forever, in an attempt to keep my social network intact, they will eventually leave me anyways. It's such a globalized world, eventually a friend would take a job 40 minutes away, another in a nearby state, etc etc. At some point there would only be a few of us left, the atmosphere of the group completely changed, never to be the same again. No matter what the great vibe we have/had is going to fall apart, I might as well chase what I think will make me happy.
I'm starting to lose my focus, I think I need another beer so I can keep typing away.
OK, now that that is over I will also point out that I will probably briefly skim these posts for obvious fuck ups and any serious proofreading is out of the question.
*It is very likely that I will make posts mourning the loss of friends, specific and general, so if you feel hurt about anything I have already said, don't be. I have had a few topics on that subject swirling around my head, but I have stumbled across enough whiny expat pages where 95% of the posts are grieving over bad second and third dates or whatever. I will do my best to slip in interesting posts along with the sappy and unhealthy moments of somber introspection.
