Looking back, looking forward

I've had friends that have "Web logged" (what the kids call "blogging") for some time now, but I've always considered it too... self-indulgent? intellectually masturbatory? (If you're a friend and you're reading this, I'm of course not talking about your stuff!)

An alternate explanation for my absence from the world of blogging is the (a) lack of content that anyone would ever want to read, and/or (b) anyone that would ever want to read anything that I would want to write.

But I bumped into some old friends this past weekend that are on MySpace and I can always zap this later if I come to my senses and realize that maybe the world was a better place before I tried to make a blog. We'll see how this works out...

That is from my first blog entry, dated May 16, 2006. I typed it into MySpace shortly before midnight (according to the timestamp on Blogger, which I think is accurate if I imported the entry into this system properly) in a little apartment that featured three cats and almost no windows. I had made my public karaoke debut eleven days prior, I was attending classes at night working on my MBA, and I was waiting for my divorce to finalize.

My world was different, but I suppose it would be odd if things had stayed the same.

My early blog was random and rarely read--ok, so maybe things have stayed the same--and it was on MySpace. I spent some time a couple of years ago exporting those entries and then bringing them into this platform, starting with the May 16, 2006 entry, but I lost interest at some point and most of 2007's (genius, I'm sure) posts aren't available to be read. I'm sorry/you're welcome. Maybe someday I will delve into my exported file and start to slug those back in. I'm sorry/you're welcome.

In the meantime, though, I want to start writing again. The process of creating has value in and of itself and I feel the need to do something deeper than Snapchat or Facebook statuses (although presumably I'll continue to do those, for better or worse).

I might think that (a) I lack content that anyone would ever want to read, and/or that (b) anyone would ever want to read anything that I would want to write, but I've written some pretty good stuff before and so it's time for me to give it another whirl.