When thinking about writing a blog, the first thing I thought of were the two questions above. My goal is to answer those questions along with many more as long as you the reader choose to, you know, keep reading.
First why read? Aren’t there enough blogs out there, aren’t there enough articles on your Facebook page, and any other social media you subscribe too. The answer is a resounding yes, a scream from the mountain tops yes. And if there are what would make one want to read more. I faced this difficult question and thought….. I don’t know. I believe the goal of any good blog writer is that their audience, if they have one, likes to read what is written, they like to learn what is being taught. So too sum it up hopefully I can pass along some good information or at least point you, the reader, in the direction of a good answer. Certainly, my goal is to hope to accomplish just that.
Second why me? If you are still reading and thinking who is this person and why should I read anything that is written, I too also asked myself the same question. Who am I? The answer nobody, I am a voice among thousands/millions, I am a needle in a haystack, one brick laid in the foundation of a sky-scrapper, a….well you get the point. What I can tell you is that I am a learner, aren’t we all, you might be saying to yourself, and yes that is true. But, well I have chosen to learn about a few specific things, things that I have found extraordinarily useful so much so that I wish I would have known these things years ago. I am still learning, and at this point, as I have found while sharing this information with friends and colleagues, others wish to know it too, or at least understand it better. I feel it is only fair at this point that I share with you that I consider myself a nerd to dive into certain subjects so much. Many have told me they wish to be informed about certain things, but not to the degree that I have invested into it. I love to read about things I do not know and in doing so I have decided with help from others that I should share this information. Hopefully that answers the second question for you it certainly worked for me.
So now that’s out of the way. What should I write about? What would others want to learn? Or at the very least what would others suffer through a few paragraphs on a blog about. I don’t want to lose you so maybe you should sit down for this. Ok are you ready? Politics…. . . . . but wait before you close this article and scroll on down your feed, what I mean is well… First of all I am not writing to tell you that you need to be a democrat or that you need to be a republican. As for now let’s just say an American, a free thinker. There that sounds better than politics, a “free thinker”. I often here things or see things about current events and wonder why? Someone might say to me “you know Trump shouldn’t” and I think why? Or “Obama messed up when he” still why? How do you know that? What are you basing that platform off of? And they may be right. I am sure there are lots of things Trump “shouldn’t” and many other things “Obama messed up”, but I still wanted to know why. I have found that it depends, doesn’t it? It depends on what you believe or what you would like to believe or what you were taught to believe, here in lies the answer, or perhaps the question. Why do you believe what you believe? I have found that almost no one can answer that question to my satisfaction. Why does one believe what they believe, yeah sure they were raised that way, or that is what they were taught to believe, but WHY? These questions and more got me to thinking and in my thinking I ran into some folks. These folks, unlike most, pointed me to information, they didn’t tell me what to believe, they didn’t ask what I was taught to believe, they didn’t even ask how I was raised. They simply pointed me to answers. These answers, which more often than not led to more questions, are what I want to share with you. I want to give you the same things that were given to me answers. If this is enough, and I hope it is, please by all means keep reading.
I do want to share that I feel it’s important to throw out there that for the purpose of this blog I want to try to remain as natural as possible on these topics we shall discuss. I want to point you in the direction I was pointed in, that direction may not be the direction you want to go, and as I found out all you have to do is go another way. When talking about politics or as we mentioned above “free thinkers” its easy to throw stones or instantly hate the other, but what I wanted to know and hopefully will shed some light on for you is the WHY.
So when you hear something in current events, things like; why should health care be for everyone? Why should college tuition be free? Why doesn’t the government just pay for it? Why doesn’t the minimum wage go higher? Why don’t we all get along? Why are guns legal? Why hasn’t someone made guns illegal? Why are drugs illegal? Why are illegal immigrants bad? Buy American. Keep American jobs here. How do we keep American jobs here? And so many more hopefully you will think of this blog and together we can shed some light on things.
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