Final thoughts on Blogging 112

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

I read Dr. Bob’s blog for a laugh, I responded to Mr. Impacts questions regarding dating frequently even if it was only to my computer monitor and rarely as a reply. I read the home buying blog to see if anything had changed since I had last purchased, and I tried learning more about wine. It was a difficult topic, as I don’t drink the stuff, kind of like learning how to reference your papers; since you don’t think you’ll ever use it it’s tough to study. I am now current on new forms of tattoos, although I will still never grasp the desire for one. I relished the religious one, always wanting to agree or argue with what he was saying. I kept saving it for a rainy day however, until the day it was too late.

It was because of wanting to keep things mellow, which I am coming to understand isn’t or shouldn’t always be the goal of a blog. I was once accused by a history professor of starting a holy war in the first week of his humanities class that many people still hadn’t gotten over by the end of the semester. Made life interesting though.

I am going to look back on this blogging experience as a positive thing. I intend to try and keep my blog on the other subject going. I’ve lost the battle there already, but it is still worth it just to let them know they are being noticed and maybe to keep them a bit more honest. I regret not making a lot of smaller blogs if only to use more of my quote library. Hindsight is 20-20 however.

My attempts at displaying my views on the media have enlightened me a bit as well. I got a newspaper article written off my blog. It didn’t mention the blog or me, but it was the blog that got the reporters interest. In the end it didn’t turn out as I had hoped, she published it on Black Friday and didn’t have time to verify enough of my facts to include them in the article. In the words of Winston Churchill, “I thought we were throwing a wildcat onto the shores and ended up with a beached whale.” I may always wonder what would have happened if I had approached it differently, but I will always remember that I would not have approached it at all if I had not been in this class.

I’ll leave you with this quote; it’s written on the board next to my desk at work,

“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result”
Mahatma Gandhi