living the life...

My photo
don't ask me how i made it to dallas all the way from the east coast of florida... but i am a junior at smu and i am loving it! i have the best family and friends i could ever ask for. i am one of the most competitive people you'll ever meet and i will also be honest with anyone when ever they ask me for my opinion. i enjoy doing pretty much anything... watching and playing sports (especially basketball, football and volleyball) and i love meeting new people. i am amazed by every aspect of life. i don't understand why i have been given so many fortunate opportunities... i don't deserve them but i will do my best to experience life to it's fullest! as i said earlier, i have the most amazing family, sorority sisters and friends... i wouldn't be here without them! i hope you enjoy my blog... it might not be that impressive but please know that i am just a beginning blogger. have fun!

Thursday, May 1, 2008

do i think that i've improved?

well, ya, i'd say that i've improved but am i necessarily liking the idea of blogging? yes, i do like it but i still can't quite get used to it. it is hard for me to sit down on the computer and type something that i think about because either i think about something and then forget about it by the time i get to a computer or it is too weird of a thought to actually put on the internet where it will forever be present. no, i've enjoyed the experience and i really have come to like reading others' blogs but i am not sure what my blogging future will look like.
i realized that a person can talk about anything on here. between being able to upload videos, pictures, music etc, one can really express their ideas, concerns, joys and experiences well over a highway such as this. but what will this consist of in the future? ya, sure, it all may be voice activated and recorded which will allow for more free-flowing thoughts to rattle off but will the time come when a person doesn't just sit down in front of a computer to type their thoughts? will they be able to record something on their watch, send it to a blog site and then speak into a pen that will create the blog all together?
sorry... i can get carried away but the future of site such as this can be a really interesting thing to think about.
so back to my individual future with blogging... i feel scared to put anything too serious up on a public site like this because i would feel violated if someone were to read it and think it was stupid. yes, i know that everyone is entitled to their own opinion about anything i say, but i wouldn't want their comment to be read by other readers who then, in turn, think that my writing/thoughts are dumb. okay, i need to build up the confidence level, but still... you must understand what i am trying to say.
my other wonder is why don't more people blog? yes, i am sure i don't know of all the people that blog but i would think that in college or high school people would really enjoy a resource such as this and i was not really exposed to something like this until this year. teachers in english departments often encourage us to write a blog but in respect of their class relativeness, i don't find my writing on a blog very applicable to my writing for an english class... yes, maybe a creative one, but not a shakespearean one or the like.
well, i know that i've taken this to a level that may be a little to extreme or unneeded but i just wanted to get my thoughts out there about blogging. i respect the idea but it is going to take a little more to get me hooked on it. i feel that a handwritten journal may be a little more soothing, especially when vamping about something private that i would feel uncomfortable putting up on the world wide web.