Hi there. Anyone?
Firstly, I freely admit that I have no idea what I’m doing here. Amazingly (or perhaps worryingly), it took me longer to work out how to write a new post than it took me to get the blog (a whole website!) itself set up. As a 28-year-old male living in a well-developed part of the world, I think that’s pretty amazing. I also think it’s somewhat indicative of the internet ‘fast food’ culture we live in.
Anyway, I’m almost certain no-one will ever read this blog and its content, but I think it comforting that we can access a free platform where we can publish our unfettered thoughts with no fear of social judgement. At this point, t’s probably worth addressing the ‘elephant in the blog’ and getting it out there that I am most definitely a cynical person.
My vision for the audience of this blog can be compared to S3 E24 of The Office (US version). In this episode, an older employee of the titular office, Creed, (who harbours some disturbing views/thoughts on the world) is provided with a blank MS Word document by Ryan, and told that it’s a blog, so go crazy. The rationale behind this action is because Ryan wants to ‘protect the world from exposure to Creed’s brain’. If you haven’t seen The Office, do yourself a favour and get watching. You’ll thank me later, I promise.
I’ll finish up by just saying I really have zero idea of what this blog will consist of. This could well be my first and only post. Perhaps this will be discovered in some deep dark corner of the web in hundreds of years time, and future people will peek into this little window of thoughts and words and try to work out what kind of person I was; what my motivations were and what my character was like. But probably not.
On that note, I’ll leave you to it. I would say thanks for reading, but I can’t shake a consistent thought that has been with me the whole time I have been typing this – if you write a blog and no-one reads it, did you even write a blog?
Until next time (maybe).
JW
Average 20-Something Male 