AKandolaJanuary 15, 2017

Warning: For this post and for every future post, there will be heavy amounts of sarcasm. Please try to keep up with my intellect. Apparently this note was needed.

I never really thought about starting a blog until one of my friend’s brought it up when I was telling him about how I liked writing. I’ve been keeping a daily journal for the past 2.5 years and while most of the posts are short and uninteresting, every once in a while I free-write my thoughts on some event or idea. Nobody reads my journal, obviously, so everything I write is for my own thought process only. And, most of the stuff I write doesn’t really come up in conversations because my personality forces the vast, vast majority of my conversations to become utterly nonsensical a few minutes in. But its obvious that discussing an idea with multiple people will develop your views further and show you where you were wrong, or possibly convince someone else of your views. If I’m going to write anyway, I might as well enhance the experience.

There are three main downsides I can see to having a blog. The first is that I think its somewhat pretentious to have a blog, but seems that most people I’ve talked to about it have told me this isn’t a legitimate concern so maybe it’s only in my head.

The second reason is making public my private thoughts, views, and ideas, and as a result possibly alienating people who disagree. Whereas its quite easy to have a diverse group of friends when you never say anything substantial, that isn’t the case when you are open about everything you think. But there are a few reasons this isn’t really much of a problem. First, and most importantly, I’ve always held that you should only believe in things that you think are worth believing and that you shouldn’t be afraid to express it. I also don’t plan to be blindly partisan (or even necessarily political) in my blog. In fact, most likely it will be a random mix of topics that I find interesting: tech, sports/entertainment, philosophy, news, etc. Most posts will be the most idiotic thing ever written by anyone, not even worth getting angry over. Moreover, I have high faith in the people I know to the point that they wouldn’t remove me from their lives because I said something they disagree with, I mean plenty of people who still tolerate me think Lebron is better than Kobe. So I think it’ll be ok.

The third and most important reason is that there is a chance no one will read it. I mean how would that look? That would be like going back to the early days of Facebook when, like everyone else, I posted everything I did on my wall, and constantly worrying that no one would like it. But, I recently went through some really old stuff on my friends’ Facebook walls and thought it would be kind of cool if  people posted more, except for privacy concerns. But I am not too worried about my privacy on the blog posts. I encourage stalkers. In fact, here’s my phone number: 206-569-5829. Have fun. Yes, there is still the issue that no one reads it, but I have already come to terms with being a nerd and having no friends. Can’t really get worse, so I might as well make it harder to ignore me.

And so given these benefits, my egomania, my narcissism, and my desire to eventually stifle all opinions contrary to my own, I am starting this blog in the hopes of eventual world domination.