WTF are you doing here?

I had good intentions when I started this blog in November of 2006. Of course, we all know that the road to hell is paved with those and honestly...who really noticed that I haven't posted an entry in over two years? Heck, I barely even noticed.

I really don't know why I'm even writing one now. I don't have anything especially enlightening to share today, but as I type that, it brings to mind a question that has plagued me since the whole blogging craze started...

Who really cares what I have to say? Who cares what is going on in my silly, insignificant life?

I'm not asking that to garner sympathy or reassurance from anyone who would happen to stumble upon this thing. I don't need anyone to pat me on the head and tell me that I am indeed “a special little star.” Rather, I'm asking because I really want to know.

Why do people read blogs? And why do the writers of blogs think that anyone outside their circle of friends cares what they have to say?

I can understand an interest in blogs that are ABOUT something...a hobby, a game, a movie, a book, a fan club...but the blogs that are just people like me prattling on about their day...what's so interesting about that?

Are we all voyeurs at heart, hoping to find some little tidbit in a blog that will make us titter and feel just a bit naughty? The internet is for p0rn?

Or do we scour blogs on the internet hoping to find some little bit of wisdom about life that we have failed to glean for ourselves? Isn’t there supposed to be one sentence that will set us free from all doubt and reveal to us the meaning of life?

Maybe we read adventurous/spiritual/humorous blogs because we’re looking for hope that our lives too can be this fun/uplifting/entertaining? Anyone else need rescued from their 8am to 5pm office job?

Or perhaps we read blogs because we just need that little bit of reassurance that our own boring existence is…normal. Face it. How bored are YOU that you’re reading my blog that is questioning why you’re reading my blog?

So, tell me…

Why do you read blogs?