It's worth a shot...

Why do people blog? This isn't rhetorical. I really don't know. I'm not a regular blog reader myself. I occasionally skim friends' blogs, just to see what it's all about, and to see if they mention me. (They hardly ever do, but that's to be expected.) From my small knowledge of blogs in general, I feel ill-equiped to understand what prompts people to record their everyday lives and thoughts for complete strangers to pour over. The cynic in me says that it's because they want to believe someone is actually reading about them and caring about them. Thinking about this a bit more, and considering my own motivations for blogging, I realize that this is no small part of my own forray. But maybe there is more to it than that... In English lecture, I've been told that life is just a series of random events until it's put into a narrative form, at which point it has meaning. Maybe blogging is the most modern and hip method for people to make sense of their lives. It's a nice thought. But in my case, I think it's probably a lie, because I didn't even consider it until I was halfway through my first post, desperately searching for some way to explain my blogging beyond just wanting to believe that someone cares.