About blogging

This is my first blog in english. Honestly, I never thought I would have a blog in english, because it's much easier to express ourselves in our first language. Also, given that english is so different from spanish, any idea that may come in spanish could lose something at the moment of translation; of course, with this I am not saying which language is better, nobody could, but is widely known that it's better to read an author in his/her original language. This is a topic for another blog.

A lot is being said lately about why people like, want or even need a blog to make their lives "public". It may be very similar to having a journal, but the difference is that a journal is only read by us, and a blog can be read by the millions and millions of people that every minute, every hour, every day is conected to the Internet. But I don't think blogs can be clasified as "public": how high is the probability to one, two, three or one hundred people find and read your blog, if there are millions of people and millions of blogs? Today's world have different kind of solitude, one that is based in many people at the same place and the same time, but nobody want to look at each other and have a real conversation, a real encounter. Like Cortazar said: "El colmo de la soledad es el colmo del gregarismo".

Maybe a blog fulfills that need of contact with the world, but with a different approach. Our lives aren't just what actually happens to us everyday, but also what we say about them, how we see it and if it doesn't satisfy us -this is more common than we are willing to admit openly-, how we would like it to be. Writing what happens to us, what we think about a topic in particular, what we want or whatever is in our mind is a way to put all that in a mirror and look at and even judge it from a different angle.