Why blog?

    When I tell someone that I write a blog, all they ask me is what is a blog?. One or two person is fine but then most of them? I'm surprised! It makes me wonder why people blog when no one reads it.

   

    I met this person recently who has been blogging for over a year now with more than 20 posts but just one follower. And it seems that, that follower is his brother and he is following him just because he had to. So I asked him if he wouldn't feel frustrated or annoyed to see that no one is reading their blogs for which he replied with a mere 'Not really'. We simply changed to another topic and didn't discuss it anymore. 

   I gave it a lot of thought to why people blog. There are people who earn money from blogging. Such are people who write really good blogs which are useful for others unlike mine. There also people who blog just for the sake of it and others who blog just because they wanna express what they feel. That's it. 

  Blogs has become more like a substitute to the good old leather bound diary in which people put their thoughts in words. Of course it has the major difference that diaries aren't meant for people to read it. But then those were the days when people where too shy to express and admit what they feel.

   Everyone has to let out what they think one way or the other. We update status in Facebook, tweet, some gossip, etc. to do just this. I blog just so I can let the world know what I feel. I don't care if people read it or not. I have let it out of mind and it is up to the rest of the world to listen.

-Shreeji