Blogging as Therapy

I started a blog several years ago, but didn’t keep up with it.  It was in the earlier days of blogs, before I had gotten used to the idea…and had enough trust in web sites to not lose my information. 

At home, I have been keeping my personal journal writing going back 20 years.  My writing has been sporadic, but somehow consistent enough over the years to add up to a significant amount of writing to sort through.  I am almost finished organizing it by year.

For years, I have wanted to write some kind of life history.  Now, thanks to technology, I have a single place to incorporate everthing I have ever written, if I so desire.  I doubt I’ll ever have the patience to data enter all of my old writing.  To be honest, it probably wouldn’t be worth it because most of it is not that interesting. 

Assuming my writing is now interesting enough to be worth reading, it’s because I’ve had plenty of practice writing.  Also, now that I have been an adult for almost 20 years, I have accumulated plenty of life experience to provide interesting content.  And finally, I have developed a strong sense of perspective, which makes writing even easier.