Yes, another blog!
Well, despite months of resisting I have finally acquired the newest must-have accessory for the modern woman: A blog.
Just this week, a friend commented on her surprise that I did not have a blog. Wait, she wondered-Do you have a blog?
Well, technically, yes, as of that moment. I have claimed, bought and named my very own website. Are there any posts on it? Is it fully designed? It’s concept and purpose fully realized? Not even close.
My delay in blogging wasn’t so much a personal protest as it was a complete neutrality of interest. I mean, first of all, let’s start with the name. Blog. “Web-…log?” It sounds more like a combination of the words ‘blah’ and ‘bog’, a very apt description of the internet in my opinion!
Another hesitation-I can not imagine a scenario where my life would be interesting to very many people. However, I have spent plenty of time looking at other people’s blogs, and my Mother, Mother-in-law and Grandmas are constantly asking for more pictures, stories, etc., so there goes that theory!
My final reason for holding back on getting a blog is more of an observation on a large scale, it is NOT related to all the Mommy Blogs I have laughed and cried over… You see, I have a theory related to things like reality TV, talentless celebrity socialites, athletes who try to be actors, and actors who try to be singers, and to a somewhat lesser extent, blogs…People are trying desperately to make their mark on a world that is constantly changing and has a very rapid turn-over rate. I mean, let’s face it…we all have looked back on family pictures from just 3 or 4 generations back, and gotten that sinking feeling…I have no idea who these people are! These people had friends, families, hobbies, jobs, they cooked, they cleaned, possibly made their local paper a couple times in their life, not to mention made life choices and laid down a genetic trail that somehow, someway led to me and my children…and the most I can say about them is that it’s lucky someone had the foresight to write their name on the back of this tattered photo! People don’t like to admit that a human life lasts about 80 years, their immediate influence lasts a bit after that, and that’s…about it.
But, in today’s world it’s easier to case a wide berth, get on TV, speak your mind, suddenly people seem to think that their lives, that THEY are interesting. They want to be remembered and acknowledged, not just another face in the crowd. However, the way most people choose to make themselves known is very flawed. In a world where many Presidents have faded into near-obscurity, I doubt very much that the winner of Can You Survive to Marry the Next Dance Idol? will be well known for long. Perez Hilton, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry, but it’s true.
And yet, in an instant, my biggest reason for NOT getting a blog became my biggest reasons FOR getting one. I can accept and acknowledge that my great-great grandchildren will not (or hardly) know me, that I will be naught but an ever shrinking branch on family trees in late 21st century school projects. I probably will never write a book, or have a painting in a gallery, win an academy award (besides ones shaped like shampoo bottles…). I am certainly aware that hardly anyone outside of my friends and family will read this blog…but what if someone does?
While my life may be nothing but “…a mist, that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” (James 4:14), ever widening and weakening like ripples from a stone thrown into a pond, THIS living stone has not yet hit rock bottom, I’m still making waves! (Oi.) If today’s world has invented ways of making a bigger splash, then we need people making the right kinds of splashes, wouldn’t you agree? I want the mist of my life to linger in my children’s lives, and all the lives I come in contact with, so they can pass the lessons of my life on to their friends and families…and so on. The waves may be ever weakening, but I want them to matter, as long as they last.
Enter, my blog. There is, at this point in time, a SMALL chance that this blog will be linked to from another website. I have entered a contest where, if I am chosen (BIG IF), I am required to have a blog to chronicle my time as a member of this team. (I’m being vague because I don’t want to go into details if (when) it doesn’t happen!) I promise to update as soon as I find out. But-despite the small chances-what an amazing opportunity! And thus, Kellsocollage was born.
I’ll save my vision for this blog (online journal? nournal? web document? bocument? These are much prettier names than ‘blog’) for another post, as I have rambled on for much too long already. All I can say now is that it will be art-based, focusing on all of life’s prettiest moments. And, if the first 40 sentences of this blog didn’t put you off from ever reading it again, that last one certainly will! (ha, ha)