A slow adopter

Kicking and screaming I drag myself, reluctantly yet expectantly, into the world of blogs. I have always been a slow adopter of technology. I know that blogs aren't really technology but the mechanism behind it and the phenomenon itself is technology based. I don't even use an mp3 player(though years ago I was given one at my work and this happily still stays in its box, gathering dust). Likewise, I was slow to learn to text message, though now I can't see how I have done so long without it. For the longest time I eschewed the use of a mobile phone. I reasoned that there were enough ways to reach me - my home phone, business phone, various emails etc. I was slow to move form the VCR to the DVD player and no doubt this trend will continue as long as people keep inventing new toys for us to play with and buy. So why start blogging now? I think it stems from the need to write - I write constantly - mostly in a library worth of instant messages to various friends I have. I occasionally write poetry. I would like to write short stories and perhaps one day I would like to write a play or even a novel. So why not do something more constructive and write something down that I can one day look at. After all isn't a weblog just a modern version of 'dear diary'? Its foolish to think that many will find this by chance and its hubris to assume that any but a very small handful would be interested to read what I would want to say. And yet, for me, I sense that there is more to web logging than just that. It's a chance to essay, to clarify one's thoughts and to share them. A professor of mine once told me that one can have the most brilliant thoughts in the world (and no I am not saying that I have any) but if one doesn't write one's thoughts down they count for nothing. They are lost and doomed to be forgotten. This in some sense is the most important reason for me to blog. Perhaps writing will be a salvation of sorts. Perhaps it is a way of getting all my ducks in a row. To bring order out of chaos. At least I hope so. And In the meanwhile, if I write down something interesting, or amusing, or thoughful or thoughtless, then perhaps some use or amusement will come of it.