*WHY DO WE BLOG?*

After sitting and reading several blogs this morning, I began to wonder to myself, why do we blog? About a year ago, I had no idea what a blog even was. When I was a young girl, I kept a diary, but hid it so no one could read it. But a blog, you write online for the whole world to see! There have to be reasons why people blog. Blogging to me is an art form. I love to surf the net and see the different styles, colors, methods, thoughts that people blog about. It's not something that you are forced into, like writing a book or an article, most people blog because they want to. Sometimes, when I can't sleep at night, or if I feel creative and talkative, I blog. Blogging is an investment to me as well, of my time and my various interests. It never even occurred to me that the world could read it if they wanted to. I have so many different interests and I post about most of them. I never had the literary gift of being a writer, although reading is my passion. Words can literally take one somewhere else, they can be someone else, or they can be informed or entertained by books. I also have strong, firmly entrenched political beliefs and when I vent them online it makes me feel better. So not only is blogging an interest for me, it is therapy as well. My first blog read was one by Rosie O'Donnell after she left television. She blogs about 'everything'! Now, for anyone reading this, let me know the different reasons why you blog? What does blogging do for you? When you initially began blogging, what was your motivation? Has this changed in any way, and if so, why and how? I welcome your comments...............