It occurred to me why would anyone want to blog...who reads a blog and who writes them? Obviously I now write one but I haven't a clue if anyone is reading it. The only time I read blogs is if I think they are saying something about me! On a few occasions I discovered things about me that I didn't even know from someone else's point of view! It wasn't necessarily bad but it was from a totally different perspective from how I saw things. Today we picked someone up from the airport; when you bring someone into Dublin for the first time, you start to see all the ordinary things that you take for granted daily, form a different perspective. A bit like blogging! I found myself apologizing for the wind and rain, as if I could have done better, and feeling ashamed at graffiti on the walls as if i should have cleaned up before they arrived! I guess a blog is like that too, I have read blogs that tell the persons inner most secrets, maybe here I am just trying to show the sunny un-graffitied part of my life...maybe that's what a blog is like? Similarly with facebook showing happy smiling faces and a perfect little world we can all live in for a while. I like facebook, it keeps me in touch with people without having to say too much, I know more snippets of peoples lives than I have ever known. I know their favorite colour, when they go out to dinner, if their relationship has ended begun or they got married. On facebook you become friends with people you were already friends with, marry the person you were married to for 22 years, condense what is going on in your life into one small profile status and invite people to see how alike they are to you. I get a buzz if I am 90 % peas in a pod and depressed when I am poles apart from someone I thought I was really good friends with! Such is the unreal world of facebook!
In reality, we change the clocks tonight and get that wonderful extra hour, it will start to get dark by 5 o'clock and the Christmas lights, though not on are up in O'Connell street. It has rained all day and its just ordinary life that makes blogging so ordinary...
