prairie point

I’ll tell you a secret.

I had another blog before this one.

It was a journal of serious political and social commentary. At the time I was recuperating at home from a medical procedure and spending a lot of time surfing the internet and reading blogs. I thought I could write as well as the other guys and the next thing I knew I had a site set up on Blogger.

It didn’t take me long to lose heart with my blog. The posts were really lame. They sounded good in my head but when I read back over the words I could see how unoriginal my ideas were. They were just other people’s ideas that I was regurgitating.

At least I got some rants out of my system. I look back at the words on the screen and am glad that no one was having to read it or listen to it. I don’t think most of us realize how much of what we say we know and believe in our heart actually comes straight off the tv.

I got only one comment. It was from an “a-list” blogger who objected to the way I had quoted him in one of my posts. As far as I know that guy was my only reader.

After a couple weeks I went back to work and started losing interest. Then I just stopped posting.

I still had the bug though.