i'll stop the world and melt with you

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Blogging as Therapy

  OK, so I had to be reminded I even had a blog.  Is this what life has come to? That we are "supposed" to blog because that is the "in" thing to do? I have been a writer all my life, and it does exactly what? My mentor, says that a blog is the center of one's social universe and uses a pinwheel illustration to prove the point, which I will have to snag from him one day.  Then there is Sam, a colleague of mine who blogs to entertain, make people think, and to be sarcastic.  I however have found that I have lived just fine without this whole blog thing, and not missed a wink of sleep.  I was reminded about it by ASSOCIATIONllc
on twitter that I had this blog.  Is that pathetic?   

  Can blogging really be therapy if we write professionally? Well, yes, it can be, and no it doesn't necessarily do much for us.  I think we can write a blog post every now and again, just for fun.  It doesn't have to be character development, it doesn't have to be technical writing or journalism.   Blogging can be just for the fun of it, and can be a way to discipline ourselves to writing in general.  I don't think that it does much for me, but then again, I have to write all day, everyday.

  As a friend pointed out to me, he thinks I  need to blog as therapy.  "Therapy for what?" or from what? I realized it can be just me putting my thoughts down, and getting a free session from the shrink in my head.  That's ok.  I don't have much faith in professional shrinks anyway, all they do is listen and say "How does that make you feel?"  It makes me feel like an idiot for paying you, that's how it makes me feel.

  So I am adding this post just to state that I have my free therapy session, and I guess I could add some more to it, but it's Friday night, and I want to go back to Twitter and do the Follow Friday thing.  I do have some tweets to post, and some links I can find from my timeline, and maybe an interesting 'weird' news story or two, let's see how I feel next week.

  This was really lame thinking out loud like this, and not really coming up with a Topic, Body, Closing Paragraph or Thesis, was it not? But at least I did as advised and got in here and got my Therapy.  Probably more benefit than a real shrink.

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