Blogs

What, exactly, do blogs represent? Do they reflect an inner personality of us or reveal what we desire to become? Blogs are currently a huge craze amongst teenagers.

Hosting so many online blogs under a single server will encourage comparison between each. Childish entries are dismissed while deep, insightful ones earn respect. Especially in a place like Singapore, such mindsets are highly sought after and encouraged. They represent a reliable source of young blood to boost the country. Such people eventually become highly successful.

Even now, as I type this entry, I am desperate to make this more than just a daily record. I am trying to post an entry worthy of the brand "gifted", one that my "gifted" friends can read and praise. This is proof of the hold blogs have upon us. They are not for us but for others. Lie, exaggerate, as long as people are awed by the great wisdom of the person behind the blog.

That is where the problem lies. In exaggerating problems, trying to draw emotions from the reader, the writer very often puts on such problems, making worse what could have been rectified. Bloggers are thus often caught in a vicious cycle, trying to ease the pain by extracting sympathy, but eventually making the pain more unbearable.

Blogs should be kept as a reflection of one's pure, raw spirit. Any hidden agenda spoils the true meaning of blogging. In response to Singapore's current trend of blogs that give off a foreboding stench of suicide, do blog for the sake of blogging.