Thinking about the ending of one of my favorite blogs, I started to think about beginnings. If I can come up with reasons to end a blog, can I also think up reasons to begin one? Here are the top ten reasons why I keep a blog.
Documentation
The first blog that I started was my personal blog a couple of years ago. We had just realized how sick my dad really was and I knew that I would want to document the journey of our family into the illness of cancer. I knew that my mind wouldn’t be as sharp as usual, wouldn’t remember details later on, and I wanted to have some sort of record to look back on during this time, so later on I could look back and possibly deal with things at a later time, instead of on the fly.
Emotional Outlet The emotional content of living through the cancer and death of a loved one is excruciating. Dealing with a 1-2 year old and a husband and an adoption is a full plate. To keep each side of my life separated, trying hard to not let emotions overwhelm me, my blog was a safe place to get things out in the open and onto the page instead of into the air of my home. It helped me to remain true to myself and to my roles of daughter, sister, wife and mother. I hate to think of how things might have been without it.
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September 6th, 2006 at 4:10 am
Good reasons!