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I was chatting with a work colleague about blogs and she said "Where do they get the time from to sit and write a blog.They must be sad people with not enough to do".
I tried to compose a suitable reply along the lines of 'time management,electronic communication,new boundaries and horizons, 21st century blah,blah,etc.Instead I smiled and said 'It's a brave new world out there'.I haven't told anyone at work that I blog and the last few days this comment set me thinking.
It is a new world,brave or otherwise and the boundaries have been redrawn and will continue to move as technology and ingenuity moves forward.Having conversations,friendships via the net,using blogs to form opinions,to form alliances with like minded people, to communicate around the world.This was the stuff of sci-fi novels and is now reality,so much so that many take it for granted.
Admittedly, a blog about everyday life is hardly challenging but, I believe the majority of bloggers go for a balance in their lives of which blogging is but a small part.
As for work...my job precludes me saying too much on a blog about what I do because of confidentiality.Although I can make general comments about the NHS and health matters.I can't imagine the Apache going out on a raiding mission with ten braves and twenty five chiefs, only after they've done the paperwork and had three meetings.
"You have not met your target for scalps this month so no more firewater.Yes,you do have to give those horses to the Navajo...they have three stars and you aughh!...flaming arrows.."
Blogs are an extension of the need to communicate, for some a desire to write and see the 'published' results,for many a chance to be creative and for some,ego!So not a sign of being a sad person although sad people can have their blogs.
Blogs also broaden one's horizons with snapshot of peoples lives,whether real or imagined. I can be a 6ft 4 toned athlete rescuing treasures from the jungles of Borneo or I can be a bespectacled mild mannered librarian with an interest in paperclips...Yes, I am both!But reality can be stretched and the imagination let loose.
I must away....treasures to rescue.TTFN.