Bloggers

There has been a serious lack of post. It's almost like I disappeared into the air...

But no one will ever wonder where did I go; simply because I don't blog regularly.
I have been wondering about how I should write my blog so it will be more interesting to people who don't really know me. Honestly, the blog, or blogging, has always been a kind of 'self-recording' for me. I did not write them so others can share my thoughts. It is more like somehow someday I can come back and read what I was thinking a few years ago.

But there is something interesting I want to write about. (see, it's 'write about', not 'share with you', probably because I know I don't have 'readers'...yet...). I have been quite addicted with this blog: stylebytes. She has good style and she blogs almost everyday. But somehow, she hasn't been blogging for a month now, and I have been wondering what actually happened to her. Funny enough, the last post of hers was about 'going to stockholm'...and finally, today, I found this page. The fact that people can be quite concerned with someone else they hardly 'know' is interesting. I guess there has always been this kind of 'acquaintance': someone you either have met but do not know very well, or someone that you know quite well (probably not as a person) but have not met.

I was just looking at my skype contacts and noticed a friend missing from the online list. She was going to a Marathon last night. I wondered if she was alright...but how strange is this! With all these 'instant messenger', our whole perspective of 'being' has changed: being alive means being online, isn't it? It may sound crazy, but for a lot of people, it IS like that. And 'being online' can be many things: answering phone calls/SMS in a short while, replying emails in a short while, answering messages on skype or MSN or whatnot in a few seconds...with the advancement of informationa technology, our world has contracted in such senses that when you think about it, it is just completely bizzare. I cannot say enough or well enough for this matter. Unlike some good bloggers that I admire, I simply cannot stop writing and be clear. I may return to this subject after doing more reading, or just more thinking. I may not. Probably not...you see...

So back to Style Bytes. The story goes on...with much speculations, somehow it is confirmed that she is ALIVE. That's great. But so what happened to her? She simply stopped blogging without putting out a notice or something. Should she? I do not know. It is just a blog. In her own myspace blog (yet, another blog), she posted this. So she wants some changes in her life. 'In the night it was time to go home. I slept the night on the bus and when I got home to Oslo in the morning I realized I had slept in and worn the same clothes three days in a row. Oh, how wonderful life is. '(I hope she does not mind strangers discussing about her life).

I guess for those truly regular bloggers with regular comments and readers, it is a great pressure on keep doing the things you always do. For her, it is about shopping, changing into new clothes and looking different EVERYDAY. It is an enormous amount of pressure. And trying to look different can be very boring and exhausting, for its own sake. This can be a bit personal to me too, but since I am such a slacking person, I never really made myself insisting on something. I always just quit when it gets boring, most often too soon.

I feel that I can either go on and on or just stop here. I will find some more intersting things to write about. The problem is I always have a lot of interesting things to write in one single day. Then, the post gets too long and then losts interest to me or the few potential readers, if any. Writing blog, just like writing, takes some structure and disciplines. And it is yet for me to discover.