Once upon a time, during the first semester of my senior year at
UVU, the English department decided it would be a great idea to add an
"Introduction to the English Major" to the current curriculum. Genius
really, considering I, and many others were only a semester away from
completing our Bachelors degree, but whatever. The class was above all other
classes I had taken, a huge waste of time. We did nothing. We learning nothing.
... At least that was my impression until just recently. For an entire 3.5
months, all we talked about was how blogging was the future. If you wanted to
do anything, you had to blog. If you wanted to get anywhere, you had to blog.
If you wanted to be anyone, you had to blog. At the time, blogging really
wasn't that big of a deal. I had never even heard of it until I took this
class. And, very much in accordance to my nature, I decided I wanted nothing to
do with whatever "everyone else" was doing. Blogging as a whole went in one ear and out
the other.
As of late, I have had several people request that I start a blog.
I argued that I didn't have a reason to do it. Life is very much the same day
in and day out. I told them I really didn't have much of anything worth reading
about. But thanks to my brother who lives across the United States, a
co-worker, and an old dance friend, who all reassured me that they would indeed
read my blog, I decided to give in. And like so many times before in my life, I
have realized that what "everyone else" was doing really was worth
it. (Except for Twilight.)
It all makes sense! Yes Fred, Corinne, and Stacy, you can be quite
proud. With all the social media out there, I think I have finally found my
nitch. How silly of me not to realize it sooner. I am a writer after
all! Facebook is fun for pictures and relinking with old friends, but still
rather impersonal. I have my journal, but I can type 10 billion times faster
than I can write by hand. I have my scrapbooks, but those are mostly pictures.
This is my happy medium. I am finding that I want to blog about everything!
Small thoughts to big events - finally a way to capture it. Yes, blogging is
quite ingenious. The other day I thought to myself how much I wished I had a
computer hooked up to my head to capture all the thoughts that run through it
on a daily basis. Sure, some of them aren't worth dirt, but others - they are
golden. At least I will always maintain they are. Hahaha. I will continue to do
my scrapbook and my journal, and occasionally visit Facebook, but I think this
is my new home.
Thank you to Corinne and Stacy for becoming my first followers, and
Mike for adding my page as a link. It seems silly, but it's amazing how much
that seems to validate things. Made me feel special. And as Fred said to me
once, "You are special Diana." Yeah well, we can argue the meaning of
that one later.
In conclusion, as I suddenly feel the need to include a "wrap
up" paragraph in reference to my school days, blogging is cool. I thought
it was silly and overrated when I first heard it mentioned 5 years ago, but
turns out the world was on to something... and I was just too stubborn to
recognize it until now. And even if no one chose to follow my blog, the
important thing is for me to do it for me. It's my own way of capturing the
smaller, and the bigger things. Brace yourself world. You are about to be
bombarded by the many thoughts and adventures of Diana. Dun dun dun!
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