Wow it's been a long time
It's been over a month since my last update but there is a really good reason for this, well, several actually. And apart from the Alien abduction one they're all really good excuses I promise!
The truth is right around the time of the last post I began contemplating the future of this blog. When I began it, it was a very personal blog, and some people liked this, probably my nearest and dearest who liked the opportunity to spy into the recesses of my mind and hear my true thoughts. I did find the odd stranger, though, who actually found my mundane existence interesting.
This was actually a reflection of what got me into blogging in the first place; my suicide attempt. A friend advised me to seek blogging as a form of release to get out my emotions before they overwhelmed me. He knew I liked computers and would probably be more likely to keep a diary if it was online, plus it meant I might find people who'd been through similar experiences and be able to share.
I began a blog called The Ego Speaks, some of you may have read it, but it's doubtful. Sadly due to incessant invasion by apparent friends whose actions caused me more stress, I realised it ceased to serve the initial function it was intended for. I then began a secret blog (secret from my friends, I mean) called The Napoleon Complex. In the end laziness was what caused that blog to bite the dust, I never really kept up with updates (and how ironic, then, that this little blurb should be so overdue). And then after the depression began to get the better of me again, I started this little baby.
This is actually my longest running blog to date, over 6 months, and that's something I took a great deal of pride in. I dedicated a lot of time to it, and actually showed good persistence to keep it up. And when the depression began to subside and I ran out of personal topics to discuss, I managed to broaden my horizons and turn what was, in essence, a personal diary, into a true web log.
However looking back over the most recent archives I can see that the blog went through a personal stage, and then a political one, then a sports one and has actually ended up turning into a big mishmash of topics. So I decided it was time for a change, no, I'm not giving up blogging, in fact, I plan to be even more dedicated to it (that's one of my New Year's resolutions). What I'm planning to do, and have been since mid-December, is to move the blog to different platform, one which will allow me to categorise and perhaps make sense of the chaos.
What's happening is evolution. I think it's time for this blog to take the next step up. The new blog isn't ready, and this is basically because Christmas and New Years came in between (and with New Years Eve being my sister's 18th birthday, it was extra big this year). The sheer stress and busy-ness of this time ensured I lacked enough real quality time to get everything ready. I have chosen the platform, and ensured the domain, and I'm currently in the process of designing the template.
I'm going to blog on here about the development of the new blog, and about this new change in my blogging outlook too, a project I shall now call Operation: New Blog Order. And then when my precious is ready for its unveiling, I shall release her upon the world.
The truth is right around the time of the last post I began contemplating the future of this blog. When I began it, it was a very personal blog, and some people liked this, probably my nearest and dearest who liked the opportunity to spy into the recesses of my mind and hear my true thoughts. I did find the odd stranger, though, who actually found my mundane existence interesting.
This was actually a reflection of what got me into blogging in the first place; my suicide attempt. A friend advised me to seek blogging as a form of release to get out my emotions before they overwhelmed me. He knew I liked computers and would probably be more likely to keep a diary if it was online, plus it meant I might find people who'd been through similar experiences and be able to share.
I began a blog called The Ego Speaks, some of you may have read it, but it's doubtful. Sadly due to incessant invasion by apparent friends whose actions caused me more stress, I realised it ceased to serve the initial function it was intended for. I then began a secret blog (secret from my friends, I mean) called The Napoleon Complex. In the end laziness was what caused that blog to bite the dust, I never really kept up with updates (and how ironic, then, that this little blurb should be so overdue). And then after the depression began to get the better of me again, I started this little baby.
This is actually my longest running blog to date, over 6 months, and that's something I took a great deal of pride in. I dedicated a lot of time to it, and actually showed good persistence to keep it up. And when the depression began to subside and I ran out of personal topics to discuss, I managed to broaden my horizons and turn what was, in essence, a personal diary, into a true web log.
However looking back over the most recent archives I can see that the blog went through a personal stage, and then a political one, then a sports one and has actually ended up turning into a big mishmash of topics. So I decided it was time for a change, no, I'm not giving up blogging, in fact, I plan to be even more dedicated to it (that's one of my New Year's resolutions). What I'm planning to do, and have been since mid-December, is to move the blog to different platform, one which will allow me to categorise and perhaps make sense of the chaos.
What's happening is evolution. I think it's time for this blog to take the next step up. The new blog isn't ready, and this is basically because Christmas and New Years came in between (and with New Years Eve being my sister's 18th birthday, it was extra big this year). The sheer stress and busy-ness of this time ensured I lacked enough real quality time to get everything ready. I have chosen the platform, and ensured the domain, and I'm currently in the process of designing the template.
I'm going to blog on here about the development of the new blog, and about this new change in my blogging outlook too, a project I shall now call Operation: New Blog Order. And then when my precious is ready for its unveiling, I shall release her upon the world.
posted by Jesus Of Suburbia at 00:38
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