The First Post

I came across some articles today on blogging, and one in particular focused on the reasons to blog - You should blog because you are passionate about a particular subject, because you want your voice to be heard, because you want to speak to your intended audience. I am starting a blog for none of these reasons. I want to write purely for the sake of writing.

I admit to fancying myself a wordsmith, an artiste of sorts, though I understand this most painfully and perhaps realistically to be utter rubbish.

This blog is entitled Chronicle 52 (I cringe at this title - so ambitious and mechanical-sounding, for some reason, as if describing some weird manga anthology on cyborgs, not that I know much about the genre or machines for that matter). I plan to write a little about my life each day, be it my thoughts and feelings, random ideas and opinions, or a record of events. At the end of the week, I aim to compile everything into an entry, culminating in 52 posts for an entire year.

In a way, having this diary of a blog will keep me and my thoughts company, and perhaps be an affirmation to the meaningfulness of existence. Note that I do not say meaning. This will be something I will read later in life, on reflection.

This will be an account.

I can't help but be weighed down by an almost crippling sense of self-consciousness though, and the thought of someone I am close to reading this. Funny how I wouldn't mind strangers coming across this, but would feel sickeningly uncomfortable if my family were to read this. I still need privacy, for lack of better words, and I already feel some internal tugging on the reins. Nothing too personal. It would just be too painful to write, and to read. Embarrassingly painful.

Right now, the biggest issue would be to discipline myself to write every day and at the end of every week. This is something I am challenging myself with. Procrastination is my excuse for being too self-conscious and plain lazy. The best way to start is to kick inertia in the ass. No matter how uninspired I am, I will write.

Hello blogging.