Friday, May 17, 2013

BLOG STRESS



BLOG STRESS


After a few days of seeing that there were 0 readers of this blog, have decided to change the title, to see if there is an automatic block based on questioning and censoring, the title.


It is time for me to put my big-boy boots on, open that door to the outside, and go exploring.  Is part of my request, made to myself, that I would become more inspired and write in blog, as much as possible.  Didn’t foresee how each day I would wake up and ask, "What will I write about today?"  For those who blog, you will realize the challenge I have placed in front of me, as each morning I awake, and initiate my morning routine.  At this point, I am drinking tea, have turned my computer on, and am in a word processing program, typing.  That’s what bloggers do.  Or at least, that is what I do.   



And that is where today’s blog begins.  Select a subject, or as in my case a title pops in my head.  So I start with a title.  Attention and is what I learned from Goggle News.  The headline.  One glance and you are suppose to decide if this something you will click on, read and in doing so, invest your time.  And that’s something we all consider.  Is this of value to me.  And that is for me the essence of blogging.  Other people do it.  And there are people like me that put something together and put it in their blog.  Often.  


And so, I hope I am not preaching to the choir.  When I display my Title and Subject for today.  Blog Mistress.


Before I get side-tracked, I want to address the phrase I just used.  Preaching To The Choir.  I have seen that expression, and think I know what it means.  It means you have a selective audience, and they have already heard what you have to say, and mostly are just the people around you, that might be your clone.  And so one has to reflect on that, at some point.  You Blog.  You go out into the Wide World of the Web, meaning your readers are vast, or could be, if you happen to interest them in terms of the material presented in your blog, on any given day.  



And there is the important distinction I need to grasp today.  Preaching-to-the-Choir is nothing like writing to an audience you have little or no familiarity with.  Writing for people like me, and I think:  "Yes, I know what to say.  I have a general sense of the conversation we might have."  But then I take a stand.  I have my big-boy-boots on.  Explore.  Take a risk.  Challenge Thy Self.  And so this is where I find the meat and potatoes  and the value of what I am serving up as I blog and still, enjoy my tea.  As I start my day.  



Begin with a simple thought.  Friday and Weekend.  What are others thinking about.  Free Time.  But really, I have my routine and am set in my ways.   Is what they do on Friday and into the weekend, anything like what I do?  So it begins.  My adventure into the unknown.  I need to figure out how other’s think about all this.  And that is when I decide, I need special input.  I need somebody special to talk to.  And ask myself, "Where do I start?"  And since I am experimenting and trying something new, I go to Google Search and type in:  Blog Mistress.

 


Ok I have a title and the opportunity to see what other bloggers; who relate with the phrase, Blog Mistress, have to say.  And I have to ask, " is this a waste of time?"  Am I preaching to the choir?  What I do realize is that when I write blogs about a man and his intentions on Friday night or on the weekend, it becomes too personal for most.  That might be true.  For me, I am flexible. 

 

 Following my own advice.  Forget the routine, you need to get  out more.  Seek Excitement.  Take a Chance.  And from time to time I do.  What I want to suggest now is that I have no plans for tonight, my Friday Night.  And the weekend just sort of happens.  No plans.  In fact, I am looking for something, I know not what.  Not sure I need a Blog Mistress.  But for now, I will just see where all this leads.  After all.  Its just a blog.  And the title intrigues me.  


And Like I said in the beginning.  Its fun when you try something new.  And its not every day that I put my big-boy-boots on and dial up a Blog Mistress.  

 

And now I have done that.  Will spend an hour of my morning, acquiring that point of view.  What do people write about, or think about , or just put out there.  Under the identity of Blog Mistress.  And when I have had enough.  I will go home.  Have lunch.  And decide.  Will I go out dancing or drinking or just looking for a friend.  Or have I had enough.  Wrote a blog.  Thought about the  various possibilities that might happen when indeed I choose, a certain way.  


And with that, I return to one of my original thoughts before I typed Blog Mistress into Google search.  Am I preaching to the choir?  Am I side-tracked?  And truly.  Should I forget about going out, and just wait until tomorrow to decide?  And that’s what I do.  I write a blog.  I post it.  And that’s it.  I forget about it.  Tomorrow will be a new day.  And I look forward to it.  With or Without a blog mistress.  I endure.  I manage.  As for you, Dear Reader, I have this to say,     "Have a good day and weekend. Perhaps I will see you in church.  Or at the local bar.  Who knows?  Not I."

 

1 comment:

  1. Whow! I'd never ever thought of a Blog Mistress. My wife would give me hell. Perhaps you are more free than me. Blog stress is also a theme I warm too. I used to like writing to a non existant audience. I could never sing in a choir. At school they caned me for not singing and then for singing. My wife says I whistle when I'm happy. I don't whistle often. I am too shy to whistle at the girl on the platform. The train rushing past is of course part of the picture. I am led to believe paradise is only in the imagination. Narcissus comes to mind. He is loving his own images as he looks at reflections in the dark water. When he is bold enough to reach out and touch they vanish in ripples.

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