"Why do you participate in the blogosphere?"


[Update below] The above question comes from Mike DeWitt of (temporarily hiatused) Spooky Action fame, in comments to the earlier post of various zen, tao, buddhist and hindu wisery. Once I realized Mike was looking for a serious answer, not taking the mickey, I figured I'd give him a *gasp* honest answer.

"why do you participate in the blogosphere?"

Okay, where's that question coming from?

Guess I write for narcissistic reasons first: I think I have something to say.

Second, for therapeutic reasons: I have something to say, and if I don't get it out, I'll pop.

Third: When I've been allowed to put what I think and say into action, people have benefited economically and/or in self-worth terms. (A creative director's first-principle)

Fourth: I have an innate urge to feel useful, competent and worthy. I'm human.

Fifth: As writer of this blog, and perhaps tellingly, as a refugee from "corporate advertising" and "traditional agencies" and so, as co-founder of a company, I get to write and practice what I think for people who are curious and looking for better, not jaded compromise.

Sixth: I think I matter. I think everybody matters. If they let themselves. If they look for their worth.

I think therefore I am. I wrote it, therefore I matter, "officially," and "Archived for posterity." Somebody else thinks different or benefits from it, and says so, therefore I mattered, even if I get hit by a bus tomorrow. A soapbox, a megaphone, a plea, a promise, a handshake, a hug. A future.

Legacy: today. Isn't it funny that we call those newspaper and magazine ads for an Initial Public Offering offering "Tombstones"? Legacy, it's not just for funerals anymore. Never was, really.

Howzat?

There ya go. That;s what I said. Stay tuned, there is a point.

Update: But hey, enough about me--what are your reasons? What do you think are those of others?