nan | 楠木

    There’s a GRE writing Issue Topic that states: after studying a scientific discipline, our view of the world would change–not because the world has changed but because our perspective has changed.

    In a similar sense, it is perhaps sound to say that our perspective of the world will also change due to many other experiences. Consider hobbies and habits and you’ll see what I mean– prolonged exercise of one particular type of activity can change our characters as well as our mentality.

    Blogging seems to be having the same effect. I think I can call myself a addicted blogger, or at least dedicated. If I had the time I would spend probably hours everyday on my blog, thinking, writing, or read through others’ blogs. Unfortunately–or fortunately, depending on your view point– I don’t have that kind of spare time. Perhaps thus I am kept at a safe distance.

    Anway, I’ve found my style of thinking transformed after being a blogger for more than 5 months and writing some 130 blogs. Quite a number of my blogs are on my daily experiences, what I do, what I feel. The general approach would be to extract from my memory the details of my experiences, and then write down my feelings; but I’m starting to feel that a different approach is revealing its presence. Sometimes while I’m going about doing whatever I have to do there are moments in my head when I feel detached from my current work, and instead focus on thinking how I should blog this later on– it’s as if I’m documenting myself as I do my stuff! Weird, no? What’s more fascinating is I actually spend some of these particular moments idling over a choice of words– I’m doing the composition of the blog, even before I’ve fully lived my experience.

    And it seems to be getting worse. When I see something nowadays, probably what first comes to mind is how I feel; a close second would be "how should I describe it in my blog?"…

    Perhaps this is one the symptoms of "bloggerized". Don’t bother looking up the word– I coined it myself (maybe others have come up with it too, but I have no knowledge of), and I use it describe the peculiar group of people who can’t live without their blogs. For me, it’s not just a diary or just a website to manage anymore; the blog is in me.

    Ah, well, I’m helpless. Who cares. Back to work.