Old Abe

The thought has recently occurred to me that blogs are incredibly selfish things. I mean, you sit down, and write all about the things that have happened to you, that you want to happen, and that you're thinking about. You express your point of view, and publish songs and poems that you wrote. And you do all of this because you think that people are going to read it and be interested. The funny thing is, they often are. People share our interests, and that's why they read our blogs. Other people sometimes have the same sense of humor as us, so they find the things that we write funny. Sometimes they find the things that we write funny because we are so geeky that we don't realise that we've written something that makes us sound like complete losers, so people read our blogs to laugh at us behind our backs. That's all fine. But wouldn't it be nice if some blogs were a bit less self-oriented?

So, I have come up with the first of many plans to revive and inspire excitement on this blog in particular. Every so often (I'd say every week, but you know how things go...) I will publish a blog about the life of someone else. Perhaps someone I know, perhaps I won't know them at all, but the idea is that instead of you always reading about what I've been getting up to, you can find out about what someone else has been doing. If they have their own blog, I'll include a link to it, so that if you like what you've read, and find that you have similar interests, or find them funny (for whatever reason...), you can read more. If they don't have a blog of their own, and you like it, we can try to get them to start one, and if they won't, then just enjoy the post on this site. Sound good?

Right, so I guess, as Abraham Lincoln said, no act is truly selfless, so I'm hoping that I'll get some more correspondence from this. If you want other people to read your blog, or you have a life, aspect of your life, or story that you think would be well recieved, email me...

That's all for now.