Discoveries.

For several years now, I have religiously been paying visit to the bookstore nearest my abode. Through the front doors and just left of the counter stands a towering wall of spiral notebooks, topped with a sign reading $0.65. The notebooks – seemingly untouched from the week before and continually dropping in price as if it were the End of the World – wait patiently for the return of their sole devoted customer, who will rescue a select few of them for the various intentions of thought-recording, dream-logging, list-keeping, date-tracking, and occasional paper-plane-making.

Though content with my purchases and excited that my supply of notebooks never seemed to diminish, I was recently informed of the reason behind the slump in notebook sales. There had been a widespread cessation in pen-to-paper journaling, and it seems that I had fallen drastically behind the times. “Blogging,” a friend explained to me. “It’s like having a journal on the Internet.”

I was a bit confused. After some research, I discovered that this “Internet” thing was quite the sensation and had been around for a considerably long time. As a result of its popularity, the activity of “blogging” was soon born, which was subsequently followed by the death of real-life journaling.Today, virtually all writing now takes place on a keyboard, and almost nothing is ever written down by hand, on actual sheets of paper. (This is more due to the fact that we have run out of trees to cut down.)

Though a bit dismayed and heartbroken, and only a short seven years late, I have decided to give blogging a chance; if I find it to be of equal or greater value than $0.65, then I will deem it a worthwhile venture.