The Pressure of Blogging
Posted by Ryan Woods
Many believe that there is much pressure involved with being a blogger. Pressure to amuse, pressure to make people laugh, pressure to use correct grammar and punctuation, pressure to being intellectual, pressure to have viewers, to post often, to read other blogs, to have comments on your blog, to...the list goes on and on and on and on.
To be quite honest with you, I feel little pressure. There's not a good reason why but it's the truth. My wife, on the other hand, feels the pressure weighing down on her shoulders. If she doesn't blog every day will she lose her readers? If she doesn't blog to impress will she let you down? I'm not looking to retrieve for my wife a hand out of any kind. But I want to make a point.
I would like to suggest a deal. A virtual deal. What is blogging, but a means of release. It's a way to share some of yourself with an online community. And so, let us...I don't know what I'm typing about. I'm trying to watch Braveheart while I write a blog and that always ends up bad (see: Ryan). At one point this blog had a purpose, but it's only purpose now apparently is to keep me from watching my movie! Darn AWITP, Blogger, and everything else I once held holy! I will not miss any more of my movie. I must not.
Now, I am off to folding clothes and watching Braveheart get betrayed. Damn Robert the Bruce!