Ok so I know I'm really new to the whole world of blogging but I have found a few things to be unsettling.  Since I started blogging just 2 weeks ago I have seen not one but two bloggers I have great respect for (and have been following for some time before starting my own blogging journey) set back.  One for a couple of days appearing to never want to blog again (to the reader's eyes anyway) and another limiting themselves to once a week.  I just want to have my say here.  And please note this has nothing to do with the lovely girls blogging but the 'bullying/peer pressure' that we still have to somehow overcome as adults.

When I was young I loved the new fangled technology of 'chat rooms' - you would find me there every other night just chatting about everything from the new awesome chapstick (yes I'm a material girl!), to the movie I just saw, or the secret crush I had and how I would ever get over my feelings....  All this was done anonymously as I 'feel' things people say/write very personally, yet I wanted and craved the support, attention and love.  I had a blast - but occasionally people would react to something I said in a way that hurt.  Just google a question (any question) and see if you don't find 1/3 of the comments to be nasty and bullying.  I have never before trying out blogging, dared to ask anything online or post anything online for fear of comebacks.  Maybe that makes me the shallow one but I was born sensitive and my instinct is to AVOID confrontation at all costs.  Even now, though I have a facebook page, I only use it to post photos for family overseas and see what everyone else is up to.  I very rarely post myself.  So this whole blogging thing is a huge step/risk for me!

I don't really know where I'm going with this except maybe to say what I want out of this blog and how I hope I come across ok and nice the few times I do reply to people here and on their blogs.  It is my only intention.

I see a blog as a diary of sorts.  My blog, while personal is opened up to who ever wants to read it.  But I hope you will treat it with respect. 

When I am reading someone else's blog it is a privilege and not the place for me to criticize or get my own issues out on someone else's blog.  They have allowed me into their life - to share the joys, successes, failures and sadness.  When I pick up a biography at the library I don't write the author when I've finished and say "Man.... your book really got me down.  Sorry you were a drug addict, sexually abused and depressed but dude why can't you shed some sunshine on me."  It is my choice to follow who I do and if I get to the point that I don't like what someone is saying then maybe (revolutionary thought here) I just shouldn't read the post!!!

I hope you understand where I'm coming from and what I'm trying to say.  I think y'all are awesome.
xx