I am torn between writing a blog regularly and writing a diary. I am unable to convince myself of the merit of maintaining a private chain of thoughts on the internet and allowing anonymous servers a sneak peek into my life. At another level, I feel a blog encourages narcissism. What is it that I will achieve?
At best, a blog can be used to comment on recent topics and there are always numerous views floating around already. Plus, you never get to sustain interest in a single topic.
Considering these facts, I don’t get a satisfactory answer to why millions of blogs are being published online.
However, I must concede that blogs help human beings in their most important task - of advancing themselves through constant learning and fostering intellect growth. Blogs help to reach you a wider audience and access multitude of brains that you could never ever dream of. Thus, you get a variety of reactions to what you think and you get to communicate with multiple stakeholders. This helps you in advancing your learning and also helps you get a broader vision. This solely justifies the effort you put in the blog. But then what will happen to my diary? The romanticism of opening your diary and browsing through the offwhite delicate pages has its nostalgia associated with it. All the people who write a diary must be able to associate with this.
But then, again, nostalgia and emotions are comforting but not as purposeful, fruitful, and essential as learning.
Let us give it a shot. Let us see the merits. Let us learn. Together.
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