Public blogging

One of my good friends recently asked me why I post personal stuff on a public blog. I had to think about this for a few minutes, but couldn't come up with a good answer. Well, my co-worker gave me one. She said that writing is the medium I'm comfortable with. That makes sense. And then I read this article today about families' letters to their soldiers who died in combat.

I liked this quote:

"But there's something about the Net that allows people to say intimate things in new and deeper ways," Suman said. "You can just pour things out of yourself, put it on the screen and hit a button, and it's gone. People are less guarded."

The Internet provides a safe outlet for me. But I'm coming to think that it's not the best outlet. Nothing beats human contact.