Popping my Blogging Cherry

The question tonight is, “how much is too much?” As I am newly venturing into the shadowy forest of random thoughts, unforeseen wisdom and inevitably, copious amounts of bullshit, I wonder, “Where is my place?” How much do I really want to share with you? After all, I have no idea who you are. Or do I?

If you are one of my closest friends, I have no problem confiding in you about the stupid mistakes I made over the weekend and how I am lucky to have a job and the friends I do. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for my friends and family. Take that one as you will.

But what if you are a complete stranger who happened along this tortured soul’s meandering blog post while googling the words “popping” and “cherry” and decided that reading about my thoughts on life, friendship and beer, amongst other things, was a decent alternative to your previous nocturnal strategy? On what grounds would I open myself to someone I have never met? After all, my profile is right here, well, in that upper left corner, but very close to here. You know much more about me than I you. Do I really want every stranger to know that I cried at the end of Titanic or sometimes I like to walk around the house naked with the windows open? Maybe.

Now you may be asking yourself, “what if I’m neither a best friend nor a stranger?” Well, you bring up an excellent point. What if you are someone I just met or possibly someone with whom I would like to become better acquainted? How do I plan my words as not to present a negative impression of myself if that cute girl in the spandex from the 5K happens to peruse my thoughts? I surely would not want to relinquish all my secrets to that gorgeous bartender in such a public forum or start spewing all my muddled relationship stories in front of a friend’s attractive sister. Or is that the type of censorship that planted me in front of you in the first place?

I realize that I have incidentally left you with more questions than answers, assuming that you were here seeking an answer to something. If not, well, now you have something to think about. I’ll be thinking about the answers to these questions too. Maybe, if we can come up with some good answers together we can make life simpler, if even just that much. Just remember, how much is too much?


Thanks for listening.
- Chris