Why Blogging is Sometimes Better...

Over the few years that I've kept a blog, I often find myself trying to explain to people - why put everything out there for all to see?

Hmmm... it's hard to explain.
There are really quite a lot of reasons to do so.

• Air your opinion
• and hope someone is listening
• Share experiences
• Get my thoughts out
• Show off (!!!)
• Keep in touch
• Be cool

hahahahaa...

well, now that I have quite a long blogroll of pretty close friends who update their blogs pretty often too, I've found a new reason to continue blogging (and to read others' blogs):

Find out what lies beneath the surface.


Oftentimes, people somehow feel more "free" to tell what they think through blogs.
Haven't you noticed?

But in person, we often "shell-up"... and I like this kind of intimacy that reading my friends' blogs brings. That I can get to know... really get to know someone I've known mostly on the surface.
I read about friends' struggles,
their everyday thoughts,
the occasional (or more often) triumphs,
their ideas on life,
how they see the world around us.
and for those in different countries - what the rest of the world is like.


And I often hope that they will return me this curiosity - to want to get to know my inner thoughts better... to understand who Shimona is a little more than just the image of who I present to the world.


So I guess.... though face-to-face interaction is usually what we seek, blogging, and sharing our intimate journeys in life, can be a great form of communication and getting to know someone.


Ya? ;)