Specifically on this blog:
1) My posts in here have gotten significantly more frequent.
2) Topics of posts have gotten increasingly more personal.
3) Readership has grown.

I have always said that what I post in here is for the amusement of anyone and everyone who happens to come across this piece of the web. For this reason, I never want people to feel guilty for reading this, regardless of whether or not I explicity know of your readership, or even whether or not I know you at all.

The readership having grown means that I am indeed amusing people, be it that they are laughing with me, or at me. I am glad about this. At the same time, however, I am a bit alarmed by the increasingly personal nature of this blog. I feel like it is an indication that I need an outlet of some kind for my thoughts, ideas, and laments; and I’m not confident that this is the right medium for it.

I do know that one of the best things about this blog is how it has come to influence my decision-making process. When something happens, or when thoughts start running through my head, I almost always consider the blog-worthiness of the event or of the thoughts. I don’t think about them in the sense that I actually expect to write or post about them. In fact, most of these things, I would never post, so perhaps more accurately, I think about HOW I would write about them if I were to blog them.

This process of pretend-writing an entry really helps me to think through things, in ways that I would have never been able to without this blog. It is amazing the conclusions and decisions I have been able to come to just by composing fake entries in my mind. It is almost as though the process of writing (or thinking of the rights words to write) helps me to put things around me in the perspective I need to understand not only the situations and thoughts themselves, but most importantly, to understand myself.

Thank you blog, and most of all, thank you everyone out there who care to entertain my thoughts.