"Writing about your life is also about coming to a fresh understanding of it at an age when you probably think you know yourself pretty well. Novelist Setphen King has said, "I write to find out what I think." He means that until you set an experience down on paper, until you ponder the perfect words to describe it, you can't fully appreciate or understand it. Threading related experiences together, you see a pattern in the quilt of your existence. It's about creating a legacy that doesn't have dollar signs in front of it but has far greater residual value for family and friends."
While I am not at an age that I think I know myself well, blogging has truly helped me know myself in a way I have not in the past. Even though most of the time I am just babbling about life in this house, there are times I truly pause to process through a thought or an experience. It is in those moments that I see me. I see my perceptions, my feelings, and my inadequacies.
And in these moments, I grow as a person.
Like Stephen King, it is in blogging that often I find out what I think.
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yes, i've learned a lot about myself through blogging....interesting how that happens.
I am at a point where I think I know myself pretty well and understand what makes me tick. I began blogging as a way of dealing with my daughters being so far away...therapy I guess.
I know blog for fun and friendships. I'm sure I'm learning about myself as I go even in the silly stuff.
Thats pretty cool. It's weird though that Steven King said that. When I was writing my last blog post I realized how much blogging makes me think things through. I knew there was a good reason to keep up the blog. :)
Exactly.
So true...but I'm curious...at what age does one ever know herself well?
Kate
That is so true. I often cannot figure out what I think about something until I write about it. Thanks for sharing.
I learned something about myself because of blogging: I blog to avoid housework.
:)
Actually, blogging has been a wonderful way to document my (mis)adventures as a stay-at-home mom. I've also met so many wonderful women in the process.
I agree! I blog as much for me as for anyone else. No. MORE for me than for anyone else.
I have seen you grow as a person, in every category of your life. That's a wonderful thing. I love you. MOM
I find myself writing a post with a point in mind, and by the time I'm finished it's morphed into something completely different. I hate to think of myself as that fickle, but sometimes I change my mind about an issue as I'm writing.
Xandra
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