I was reading Arun’s blog over at another reflection last night. I think it’s a great start. It’s really well written and seems very well thought out. The whole idea of the blog actually seems very well thought out. The concept of “another reflection” and all of that. The flash video in the second post was hilarious. So props to Arun for all the good work.
I’ve been thinking, I should probably think out these blog posts better. I should probably try to write them out better. I should probably conceptualize the blog out better. I mentioned in my 1st post that the only thing I knew for sure that I wanted to include in this blog was music. So I’d like to expand on that and fully describe the purpose of this blog.
People don’t like blogs that have no real purpose. I don’t think anyone actually follows anyone else’s “personal blogs”. If you don’t really know the person, it’s really not that entertaining to follow that person’s blog. Ever since everyone jumped ship from LiveJournal, the only blogs I follow these days are either informative or self-improvement based.
I’m going to try to make this blog as non-personal as I can. I’m not going to post about everything I did the previous day. I’m not going to make posts about how I hate on this and that.
I’m going to make posts about things that inspire me. Whether that be music, film, new articles, or something that happened to me personally. Each post will feature a little history on how I came upon the source of inspiration, why it inspires me, perhaps what I’m doing to let that moment of inspiration resonate out, and of course a link so you can check it out for yourself.
Additionally I’m going to use this blog as a way for me to practice writing. After completing 5 years of engineering in university, I’m basically really out of practice in terms of writing. I’m not talking about writing novels or anything giant like that, just simple things that involve a little bit of creativity like this blog. I dug up some old essays I wrote in grade 11. There was an old reading journal I had to keep when I was reading 1984. I was really surprised how well written the entries were. I feel like I really missed out on improving writing skills during my undergrad years. The only time I had to write out things were for lab reports lol.
I’d like to point out that the inspiration in this post is Arun’s blog another reflection, if that wasn’t obvious. Go check it out.