The Blogging Begins

Blogging makes me nervous, to be completely honest.

I feel old-fashioned when I open up my brown suede journal, and uncap my pen and write down my generally meaningless observations about the world. I feel rushed into this whole idea of spilling thoughts out onto the all knowing, all seeing world of the Internet.

However, every professional advisor I’ve spoken to has mentioned starting a blog. I’m not sure how this will help me in any way, but at this point I’m willing to give it a try. I’m basically willing to give anything a try, these days.  Oh how unfortunate the ‘nowadays’ have become. Unemployment, recession, unhappiness; these are the words on everyone’s lips, behind their eyes, floating around in their minds.
On campus, everyone (at least everyone in my major it seems) feels so uncertain about getting a job, which makes all of us freshman (at least me anyways) feel so fortunate to have time to stay in school and wait for this whole mess to blow over.

We tell our friends, majoring in business, it’s up to you to fix this!

No pressure or anything. It’s not like it’s our futures we’re talking about here. I’m just sayin.

Anyway, jumping subjects (I tend to do this frequently, don’t let it get to you), how does one crack in to the blogging industry? If you want to refer to it as that. Maybe blogging community would be a better word. Even as I’m asking this question, how will I have any idea who (if anyone) will read it and think of an answer?
This is why blogging is so frightening.

With a journal, you know you are alone. There are your thoughts, set down, just like you remember them, right where you placed them. All by themselves, waiting to ferment into distant memories, into the past.

With a blog, how can you tell? Should I be formal and say ‘how can ONE tell’? Who is my audience? Or do I have one? I could go on, but I’m going to stop myself.

Well, here’s to breaking into the blogging business!

Peace, Love & Potatoes,

Steffi Gabby