Blogging on Blogging

Just the fact that I'm writing this should say "no offense" to all y'all who might get offended.

I always thought blogs were dumb.

To be fair, I never really read blogs, because they seemed like people wanting to be paid attention to, writing about their own life, like the people who write their facebook statuses "Just got to work!" "Sitting in my chair now!"

However, I am now a stranger in a not-so foreign land.  Everyone that I know from the first 19 years of my life is somewhere other than here.  To be fair, most of the people that I know from the first 19 years of my life are not where I was for the first 19 years of my life, so I began following them on facebook.  I read their statuses "Just got to work!" "Sitting in my chair now!" and felt a vague connection, that I was still involved in their lives. As weak a connection as it may be, it's good to know that these people are alive and well, thinking and feeling and growing like they always have. I also noticed that facebook notes are not worth following.  I'm sure you can tell that as far as social media goes, facebook is all I know, hence it's my only comparison.

Now that I'm on the left coast, I still very much enjoy communicating with everyone from my past life, and from actually following other people's blogs, I believe that now is the time.  I hope I'm still young enough to learn the blogging trick.