And so I blog

I decided to start this blog on the insistence of a friend of mine. I don't know why exactly she felt that it was important for me to blog about things, but I decided that I might as well. After all I have some opinions, a few strongly held beliefs and tons of really random thoughts. Most of these end up coalescing in my mind into some sort of philosophical idea about the most varied of topics and then I silently explain them to myself pontificating for hours silently in my mind to no one. So I decided that Chantel might be right and I should start a blog. After all it's more interesting to pontificate to myself in written form then silently in my head (or crazily out load to myself). However, I feel that blogging for the most part is described very correctly at despair.com. For that reason this site is mainly for me to think out loud; hence the name, personal pontification.

I realize that there is a possibility, however slim, that at some time in the future one or maybe even two people will read what I have to say, and that's just fine. I don't actually have anything to hide and if I did you can bet I wouldn't write about it on the internet with my name attached. That said, I don't really care all that much what people think about me anyways. I never actually claimed to be a perfect person, or even a good one. The fact of the matter is I've gone on the record several times claiming that I am in fact not a good person. Really it's hard to say wether I am or not since hammering down just what makes a person good, bad or not good is difficult to say. It's something I've thought about a lot, have several theories on how it could be defined (all personally damning) and may write about in the future if I've got nothing going on (not likely) or I need a break from what I do have going on (very likely).

I suppose the point that I'm trying to make to myself and the few lost souls that stubble onto my personal inane ramblings is this, I'm not trying to please anybody, I'm just talking. Do I promise I will always be interesting or funny or worth reading? Heck no! I don't even promise that I'll find myself that way. But I do guarantee that whatever I write about is something that I've been thinking about and it was something that got enough cognitive time that it deserves being put on paper (or the digital equivalent).