What a blog should be.

I came across this blog and it's everything I wish my blog could be - food, photography, travel and life in general... and a owner who likes to take pictures of her own pretty self is always a bonus...

http://www.storyofbing.com/

She also had this quote in her profile that said, "Start doing things that you love, stop over-analyzing. Life is simple"

Is it really? Perhaps so... maybe I just haven't developed the fore/hind-sight to realize that? Over-analyzing makes me fickle and then I procrastinate.

Though I've been blogging on and off for years, my blog has always been self-centric - it's not about readership, because I know only people who know me personally will be interested to read my blog. It's somehow like a peephole into my private world, possibly things I won't tell my mum or I have trouble expressing to my BFF, but I choose to expose in this blog, things I find hard to verbalize to a real friend - I post here. It's not unlike gossiping with a close gf in a public toilet (like many girls do), usually a way to clear our head of thoughts that are all jumbled-up, but also risking these private thought being overheard by someone... We can't control who is in the next toilet cubicle, like we can't control who reads our blog in the vast cyber universe.

But as I get older, I'd like to think I have less angst, less things to rant about... yet no less things on my mind. In fact, I agreed with a colleague who was turning 30, that our memory seems to be declining - sometimes unable to recall a mental note to self made 30 seconds ago. I want to blame it on work stress, too much work info taking up bandwidth in my grey matter, but it could really just be age, no? So the blog will serve as a space I exercise... train my wit, my creative writing skills, an avenue for me to post pictures that I've taken (hopefully), but basically one place I can use my brain on creative work outside of my real work.

Someone I know wanted to use his blog as an outlet for the side of his brain he can't use much at work, for me I guess, my blog is just a place for me to remind myself, that side of my brain still exists.

And one day when I have some time, I really want to revamp this blog... the dark colors are starting to look dreary.