Don't Say You'll Never

Is it normal for a new blogger to start out quite modestly when it comes to sharing?

Looking back on old posts I see painstakingly written entries that try their best to be as vague as humanly possible. But as time goes on, they begin to really loosen up. I begin to really share truly intimate feelings with who? My computer screen as far as I know. I always just thought this would be a good place to put my thoughts and pictures and opinions on popular culture. Nothing really so much public as just a place for me to be able to say what I wanted about anything at all without being judged or corrected.

And now I worry about 'over'-sharing. I put down private thoughts about relationships and pain I feel without really knowing who reads this sucker. I do the judging and the correcting--of others I interact with and of things I observe. What if I'm losing the ability to say something to someone's face, or even more so, the ability to linger on deeper thoughts without reminding myself to blog about them?

You never see things like this as a problem until someone you would rather didn't know everything about you, finds it out. Not that anyone has or I really care all that much personally, but I do care about the way others might feel, especially if I'm hurting them.

I'm going to experiment with being a little less emotionally personal on certain levels and see if I can get something intellectual out of my writing for a little while. We'll see how this goes...