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So let's see...what to write...
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Well here's something. Maybe a bit too deep for the mood that I'm in. I've had this subject area in my mind for a while. It might be thought provoking. Maybe not...
Are you ready?
Here are your questions:
What do you not blog about?
What are your no-go areas?
Do you have no-go areas?
If you do, what is your reasoning?
Did I make you think? It makes me think. Makes me carefully identify the areas that I have naturally stayed away from. Sometimes, it's not so naturally. Sometimes I really have to stop myself.
This whole world of blogging is an interesting one. Do I really want to write about my life to the entire world? Do I really want anybody who has internet access to be able to access me? Sometimes when I take a step back, I think geeez, absolutely not!! Why the heck am I doing this? Why blog? Why let the whole world in to my backyard? There are people that read my blog that I clearly don't want around me. Google analytics informs me who these people are. And yet...I still blog! I still blog! I still blog? What the crap?
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Yes Kavita, you still blog. :) Get over it.
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Can anybody relate? Does anybody wig out about it sometimes? Is it just ME?
So given that I do blog, there are things that I stay away from. I generally don't write about days when I am down and blue - the intimate stories. Everything here is generally fluff, no? Well maybe I'm short-changing myself. It's not fluff but generally speaking it's not anything too deep. I don't write about my inner deep thoughts...things that keep me up at night. Things that I might want to not regret, but I do. Why do I stay away from writing about these kinds of things? Hmmm....to be honest, I'm not sure I honestly know. I could give you a lot of maybe's. Do you want those? Maybe it's because I don't like going there anywhere. Maybe it's because I try to focus on the fun in my life. Maybe it's because I'm scared to tap in to those areas. Maybe, maybe, maybe...
I don't generally write about politics although I will admit that I really want to post an email that I received from President Obama (yup, that's right!) about universal health care. Ok - it was a form email that was generated and sent out to the masses but I felt important! I never received an email from George Bush! Anyway I digress (again)...I don't generally write about politics or religion. Why? Those are two personal areas of mine...ones that I am generally not prone to discuss about with anybody. They are mine. I'm protective over them - especially religion. I also don't want my blog to become a place for disagreement or argument. You can head on over to Bill O'Reilly or Bill Maher for that.
What else? Work. I don't write about work. Why? Because it's out of respect for the families I work with and my coworkers. I absolutely adore the people I work with and could write forever and ever about them, but...I don't.
Is that it? Is that my list? Is that my playing ground? Huh. If the list is complete, then my playing ground is HUUUUGE! :) Huh. I thought my playing ground was smaller than that. Wow, what an insightful post! Ok, not bragging but seriously, I thought my no-go areas were many more than that. Maybe the cabin pressure is getting to my brain. :)
So you.
What about you? What are you safe areas? Your not so safe areas? Why?
5 comments:
Great questions! :)
I think I totally blog about fluffy day to day stuff and stay well clear of:
a) Intensely personal feelings
b) relationship or friendship issues
c) politics mostly, although I am sure it is pretty clear where I stand. If there is a "green" issue that is political, (and let's face it many are), I will blog about it but I really don't want my blog to become a place for political rangling, there is more than enough of that everywhere else it seems to me
d)religion, (which isn't something I spend a great deal of time thinking about anyway)
d) Intimate subjects which others blog about really well, but which I would be mortified to blog about. (I don't have much reason to blog about these on my "green" blog anyway). It is strange really because I don't think I am particularly squemish speaking about them with people I know, but something about blogging about them seems really wrong for me
e) Work. I never blog specifically about my job for many reasons the most important of which is that I am a nurse, and there are major confidentiality issues involved.
I think that is it.
You are right Bo, blogging is such a funny thing! I absolutely love to read about other people's lives, and seeing life from their perspective, and I think it really does change the way I look at things which is good sometimes.
What do you not blog about?
I don't blog about, um, my deepest darkest issues. Ok, sometimes I do. I rarely blog about drugs and the amount of them I did in high school. But I just haven't felt the need to write about that, yet. I most likely will at some point write that torrid story out.
What are your no-go areas?
Um, really there aren't any.
Do you have no-go areas?
No, I really don't. But as more people read my blog I have had to censor myself a little more.
If you do, what is your reasoning?
Well, now that some people I know IRL are reading my blog, I do not write about them, or my thoughts about them. Unless its something fan-frickin'-tastic that they do for me or an appreciation for them.
how interesting. i've been wrestling with this issue for the past few weeks as i've noticed more "strangers" reading it. "do i want to come off as a crazy christian?" i thought, "when most of these folks are coming from a food background?"
but i've decided that if i don't talk about what's on my mind, or on my heart, then it's not going to the accessible blog that so many people liked. so i've just letting go and writing about whatever's on my mind.
i don't write about politics that much because honestly, there are SO MANY other venues for that, and honestly, it's all the same to me. those two parties have more in common than they appear to (especially maintaining a two-party system), so i can't be bothered. plus, politics tends to becomes people's defacto religion, and that makes me squirmy.
clearly, i write about my faith, and i definitely have fear issues about that. but it's kind of my job i think, so i'm going to keep going. plus, i've had some huge positive reinforcement on that front the past couple of weeks (i wrote about that today), so i've got to keep going now!
heck, once i wrote about how i feel about (gasp!) abortion, i felt like nothing else was off limits! that was the hardest post ever!
i write about most of my deep, dark stuff... maybe not about people in particular with whom i'm struggling. i don't write about hmmm, i don't know!
i guess my no-go areas would be family stuff that would embarrass or humiliate people. apart from that, i think i'm trying to be open!
good questions kuv!
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I don't blog about the issues I have with my mother and there are lots!!!....
I also don't blog and talk bad of my hubby.. there are plenty of days when I could as he really pisses me off but talk bad of him on my blog I would never do!
I do not blog about politics. Or at least who I voted for, and why. I think that is sacred for some reason. Probably because my husband feels that way, and I will most likely never know who he voted for. (I would tell him if he wanted to know.)
So I guess that is my ONE off limits topic.
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