Why do we Blog? and other distractions...

Why?
Have you ever asked yourself why do I blog?
Have you ever had a blog dialogue with yourself?

I did, I've been away in a major capital city Sydney Australia for three days and through a mix up I have not had Internet access. As soon as I get back I'm going to fire my personal assistant for mixing up my wireless access details. I'm imagining quite a scene considering the personal assistant also makes me breakfast, washes my clothes, mothers my children...replaces my ventilator hose...[that was her then.]

Arrrh 3 days no blog post...

The absence of blogging for three days has caused me to pause for some self reflection.
Upon reflection I thought of these points:

I haven't blogged for three days, is it likely any one's life will be overly affected?
Answer: No
Apart from my own life? I think not. I don't quite yet have the readership that hangs on my every word.

A more pertinent observation would probably be has any one actually noticed I haven't blogged in three days?
Answer: Probably Not

Immediate depression. You mean after blogging continously for 7 months writing 600 posts and leaving thousands of comments no one would have noticed?
Answer: No

Missing Me?
Ok, now that I've established that no one is overly affected by my absence, and no one is overly affected by my presence what impact is my writing having on the grand human collective collaborative program called blogging.

Will the blogworld miss one blogger out of 56million bloggers? No

Will the blogworld miss 600 posts out of a possible 60 billion posts? No

Will any of my blogging buddies miss me in the slightest whilst I am on this forced exile? Probably not.
No one except that blogger who doesn't read my posts, but leaves;
Cool :-D , as a comment after I've blogged that my rare print collection from the 15th century was totally destroyed in a freak accident after a rickshaw operator collapsed through the roof of my.... any way you get what I mean..Cool ;-D

A Post about a Post
I wonder if any one has been obsessive enough to count how many words they have blogged?
No I don't mean how many posts multiplied by what they think to be their average. I mean actually to have counted how many words in each and every post. Sounds like a Jack Shack question?

Enough of a diversion. I'm stalling.

Why do I blog?
Well it's....
Oh look its lunch time. Bye.

Who am I saying bye to? Myself?

Post Lunch Wrap up.
Ok life goes on, I've filled my ample container with what some call a belly, I've waddled back to my room to finish typing this ground breaking research into why we blog.

Blogging as substitute for Nanna's Love
Is it possible that blogging has become a substitute for the care shown between members of an extended nuclear family? Every since the cold war began the Nuclear Family has been shrinking in size. Where as traditionally families consisted of Grand Parents,Children and their children it seems now that the family unit is one very small unit. Grand Parents don't get added into the fusion of what is a family any more.

With the family being smaller and daily life being less intimate due to modern day life is it possible that blogging replaces that need for the semi intimate conversation we used to have with our local bootmaker, barber, grocer, store providore?

Six Shops maketh one's World
When I was younger we had a small (six shops) shopping center. To me this was the equivalent of the universe. Everything that happened that was of reportable value to a five year old happened there.

The milk bar has run out of Sherbet bombs was the top line news story. Joey the boy from those scallywags down the road had been caught stealing the return bottles...again.

Return Reruns
In a mixed up natural justice kind of way Jimmy had inherited his brothers penchant for returning the returnable bottles that had already been returned. To Jimmy it didn't matter that the bottles being returned for their 5 cent refund had already been returned and then stolen that was a mere detail. I never really did grasp the abstract argument he put forward as to why it was alright to re-
return the returnable bottles that had been returned for a return
refund.

Mr E's Char and burn
In fact the biggest news was the day the Fish and Chip shop burned down. This fine establishment of child hood culinary memories had always been my favorite. In a strange kind of way, the chance to have potato cakes from a shop instead of from my mother seemed to be revolutionary.

Mr E the Fish and Chip shop owner has always been friendly with us, my dad had helped him on a previous occasion with some shop renovations and this for some reason I never understood meant we always got an extra potato cake or a few extra chips.

The week after the fish and chip shop burnt down I innocently asked my mother for some Potato cakes from the Fish and chip shop, she said that wasn't possible. I never really understood this as it had been over a week since the entire shop had burnt down. How long does it take to get a new shop???

Good bye Mr E
There was a strong neighborhood rumor that Joey's brother, who had gone on an unexpected long holiday a few years back had had a rather animated discussion with Mr E the week before, what ever happened I never found out.

The Fish and Chip shop never returned to that small enclave of six shops. In fact that was really the beginning of the end for the ' local shops'.

Generally Speaking

The General Grocer was a funny chap, it seemed that he had some bad premonitions. He was smaller than the soon to come 'Shopping Mart'
and so he went to extraordinary lengths to make people feel he was doing them a favor. If you happened to like an exotic brand of tea leaves from 'Ceylon' he would get them in, if You liked a bran loaf with sesame seeds not poppy seeds, then it was ordered.

Seems the seeds didn't matter much 3 months later when the supermarket opened.

Well its been 3 days and as to why we blog I'm none the wiser, but its been 30+ years since those shops and now I remember what happened to my bicycle Bell. Joey where are you?

Btw, I miss my blogging buddies...

Oh if you were looking for a more serious dissertion on why we blog try this rather good one: Why Do We Blog?


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