Why Do I Blog?

That is an interesting question that I often ask myself.  I believe that there are several reasons why I blog that I might share with you. 

Of course, some people may wonder why I started my new Blogspot in the first place. After all, I stopped writing for such a long time after my horrific illness that came out of the blue on to me at the start of 2015. There was no certainty early on to me that I would be mentally in a position to be able to do so given how tough my situation was after I gained consciousness at home. Yet, after several months when I started feeling better, I started writing a little bit and then towards the end of last year I started up my new website "TecumsehCityBlog."  Thankfully, I was able to use it and am writing on it now quite often. 

I'm so pleased emotionally that so many people go to take a look at what I write. However, what this really means to me is that it gives me a very strong reason why I should spend some time during the day working so that I can communicate on this website. It provides a strong incentive for me to make sure that my brain is operating and that I have something important to do in this area. It would be terrible for me just to sit around doing nothing. 

I started up the website again because I have been a writer on the Internet for many years before both on my own Blogsite and on the one where a number of people wrote with me and attracted the attention of so many Windsorites. It was so enjoyable for me to do so. 

As you know, I left that website literally a few days before I became so ill with an unknown, very serious disease because I just felt that I did not have the energy to continue on with all the work and writing that I did because of my role on it.  I just thought that I needed time to relax and to participate in taking on new matters in my life.  Unfortunately, my kind of "relaxation" in which I have been "participating" until fairly recently is not exactly what I expected to happen! 

The most obvious reason I'm writing again is because I like doing so. I really do write to express my own perspective on an issue. This may sound silly but when I write an article, it is to express my own personal point of view. I express what I believe the facts are and give what my opinion is by setting out my reasons. To be honest, while I hope that people agree with me, it does not matter to me if people are supportive or not. My logic is that even if not supportive, people will appreciate what I am saying and why.  I do try to write as clearly as possible and set out the reasons why I am taking my position. 

Why this makes sense to me personally is that it is forcing me to use my brain. After what I went through medically, I just find that what I'm doing now makes my brain work again. That is so important for me as I try to recover from the illness that I suffered. As I have said on here several times before, even the medical people in this City don't know very much about this illness given the few times that it happens to an individual in this area in any year. As you know, dear reader, I have recovered so well so far and am so pleased about it. Clearly then, this is a very important reason why I am writing at this time. 

Naturally, this role has helped me keep my friendship with a lot of people and to develop new ones with so many more. Oh sure, I've known many of my readers for many years for a variety of reasons. This website allowed us to maintain our friendship. With some of them, we have worked together before in the past on very specific issues over the years. For others, we had commented together on many issues in the past.  For others, even if there was disagreement, they joined with me because of what we were able to share together. However, and this is the important part, a number of the people who are reading what I write are those whom I have helped by just giving them something to read. They just happened to find my website and liked to read it.  

It is interesting that when I started writing so many years ago I had relatively few readers in the beginning. Yet, that number had grown to a very large one. The real surprise to me, my appreciation to all, is the large number of people who read my material every time something new is posted on here. It really is a very good personal feeling for me to be quite honest about it and provides a good reason for me to use my brain power which helps to make my life feel so much better. It provides a strong reason for me at this time to continue what I enjoyed doing so much in the past and to appreciate that so many people are still supportive of me!