How a blog that was never to be, is started.

Last year, a lot of my friends where heavily involved with blogging. First one, then another and soon over 20 people I knew (including my wife) where blogging about this, that or the other. It was interesting for me to read the things they talked about. I enjoyed every single one. It was exciting for me to read about things that would never actually make it into casual conversation but was fascinating none-the-less.

I briefly entertained the idea of writing one myself. I immediately dismissed the idea. Nothing interesting for me to write, nothing specific I want to write about anyway. On top of everything else, the written word is one of my weakest links, it always has been. My grammar is atrocious and my spelling is even worse. I silently envy every one of my friends that “blog” but I decided it wasn’t something I could really do for a number of reasons.

Late night I was talking with one of my really good friends. As usual, we hit a number of different subjects and I un-intentionally found myself offering advice along the lines of, not worrying about being perfect. About not letting the fact that you can’t do something perfect prevent you from doing it at all.

Later in the conversation about a different subject, we talked about blogging. I was trying to encourage them to start blogging again. Somewhere in the middle I mentioned my apprehension about blogging myself. I said “My grammar is atrocious and my spelling is even worse, it would take me one hour to write something and three hours to correct it.” My friend said something along the lines of “Well, it gets easier the more you do it.” I nodded and we moved to yet a different subject.

However, after I got home and I had time to ponder the various subjects and conversations we spoke about, I stopped in my tracks and realized just how hypocritical I was. On one hand I advise not letting imperfection prevent you from doing something and then right after saying that, I, myself, am unwilling to follow my own advice by not blogging because my blogs would fall short of perfection?!

It was then that I decided I was going to give the blogging thing a try. I don’t promise to write often. I sure don’t promise to write about anything interesting, and I can’t tell you I’ll ever have anything specific in mind to talk about. But I will no longer abstain because I feel I can’t deliver a perfect blog post. Depending on how this goes, I suppose I’ll need to thank, or curse my friend for indirectly getting me started here.

So there you have it. How a blog that was never to be, is started.

Today's Three Tidbits:

The song stuck in my head today: “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper (I can thank the Wii game “Just Dance” for that one.)

The interesting person I met/worked with/interfaced with today: Jennifer

The book I’m reading today: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (thanks Kit, I love it so far)