Why should we BLOG
Inspired by Anxiao’s presentation last week, I began to think seriously about posting blog: Why I didn’t like to post blog? Why most youth in China don’t post blog? And why should we post blogs? What it does for ourselves? And what it does for others?
Well, as for the first question, why I don’t like to post blog?
I have to say it’s just a habit. I don’t like to say anything until I believe I have thourouly thinked through it. I’ve always consider writing as something big. If I can’t come up with a very good idea, then I’m not gonna write it. An other reason why I don’t write is that I feel that most things I wanna write about has already been written by someone else, someone who can write better than me. So what’s the point of writing it myself?
I guess most Chinese youth are just like me. We write when we have to, when we are having Gaokao composition or writing some applications. But those things are so boring! No one can blame me don’t like writing if the only thing I have writen in recent five years are just Gaokao compositions and applications!
So what it should be like to have real writing experience?
1. Think.
You think, so you write. It’s not because that you are assigned with the task. Have thinking experience makes you a person, different from all the other creatures in the world. We have the ability and the power to make our voice, so we shouldn’t waste it.
2. Tell a good story.
Having thoughts in one’s mind doesn’t garuantee a good blog post. I believe almost everyone has this kind of experience that through writing, we figured out something even clearer than we ever did. Writing is a process of sorting things out and translating one’s own thoughts to a speaking language. It helps us think, and convert those flying thoughts into something concrete.
3. Share.
A good story should be shared. It really doesn’t matter if someone else have written something like this before. Of course there will be others who writes better than us. But writing one’s experience and thoughts is not a competition. We are not writers who are trying to make a living on our blogs. We are just ordinary people who have interesting life experience, and we know, if we don’t make a record, we will forget. And so will the world around us.
When Anxiao said that if something is online then it’s alive, it really gave me great impact. Becuase it means that some part of my thoughts, and some period of my life could really be alive if I try to record it. I’ve just realized that life is not only a process of knowing more and becoming more mature, it’s also a process of forgetting and lose imagination ant other staff. Some feelings and thoughts only come to us at certain age under certain circumbstance. There is no way we can track them back be recalling them only in our memory. it may became a hallow scene with no actual meaning. What a pity would it be?
And recently, I’ve also realized how privileged we are to have the ability and rights to speak our own mind. There are numerous people who have thoughts, but are imprisoned or forbidded to speak. There are also people who have the need to speak but don’t have the tools or methods. So for us, all of those people who have the ability, rights and freedom, why should we give up on all of these?
Well, all I want to say is that I’m having an amazing life, and I’d like to share it here!
