Why I'd Still Be Blogging If No One Was Reading

There is a lot of content on the internet.

If you're interested in theology, productivity, comic books, sporadic updates on individuals who want to share their lives online, or anything else that I hope to write about here at The Rambling Confession, you don't need to come here. It's already all on the internet. You can find it somewhere else (written better, even) if you choose to look. It's out there.

There's no big reason why anyone should be here other than (a) they're my friend, and (b) they saw this link posted on their Facebook news feed and they have a few minutes to kill. So if I think that, why am I writing? Not to gain a huge readership. Not to add my 'knowledge' to the vast space of the internet. Here's why I'd still be writing this even if no one was reading:

1. I'd Keep Writing Because I Want to Learn

We keep information memorized better when we've tried to teach it -- even if there's no one in the audience when we teach. This small corner of the internet is my space, and here I try my best to communicate ideas to no one in particular so that I can increase my own understanding of the things that I will be, or have been, writing about. So far it works.

2. I'd Keep Writing Because I Want to Journal

The blog archives are a sort of ideas journal that I can read in a few years to see what I was thinking through on, say, the week of my 28th birthday. (For the record: I have been pretty anxious about getting up to the 30 years old mark.)

3. I'd Keep Writing Because I Want the Discipline

It takes effort to keep putting up content on the blog. Every time I choose to do something that I don't want to do, it makes the next decision down the road a little bit easier.

4. I'd Keep Writing Because I Want to Save Neat Things

There's not just articles on this site. Already there are links to some of my favorite things. (Seriously, check out Adam4D's comics if you haven't yet.) In the future I'll probably add summary reviews of books that I like, post sermon notes that I found helpful, or collect great videos and comment on them. This is my place to come back to find all of that neat stuff.

So that's it. I mean, there's probably other good reasons to keep writing -- like getting good at writing. But I always find it a bit weird when someone starts a blog; especially a blog that majors on theological topics; it always just feels like the person doing that and starting that kind of blog is an aspiring spiritual guru looking for an audience to buy in to their shtick. For me, I just want to write for myself. And if you want to join in on that conversation, well, that's great too.

See you around,
-Sean