Did you just tell me to get a life!?

To have a  personal blog, he said, you need to have a life. There has to be something to write about other than that there is nothing to write about. He was right, this old friend of mine. Not old as in age but old as in known him forever. But that is beside the point, I suppose. He had a blog. He said. But stopped blogging as it was all he did and he ran out of things to talk about. 
He had no life. Apparently. 
And he looked, at me. And I tried really hard not to make it mean that he thought I had no life. That wasn’t what he was saying. I’m sure of it. Really. Was he? Anyway, the point is that sometimes I have a million things I could write about. Some days, nothing. I try not to fluff or fill this blog, but sometimes, it probably looks like I do. 
But mostly, when I have been out and about, at work, at play and doing things, I have more to talk with you all about. I’m not one of those writers who develop a story and plan it and finally put fingers to keyboard. I’m a blurter. Sometimes I don’t even read through my posts before hitting publish. Bad grammar and spelling be damned. I’m saying what I have to say NOW. Right, Mr or Mrs Anonymous!? Sharing my life, when it happens, that is what appeals to me. Otherwise, I’d have to think about what I was going to post, and geez, that seems like hard work to me. 
What do you think? Do you need to have a life to have a blog OR does a blog mean you have no life and are hiding behind a computer screen instead of getting out and about with people? Does your blog suffer when you’ve got no life? Or do you just make something up {as in research and develop a post, not fabricate an exciting life… Or DO YOU fabricate an exciting life!?}.
Tell me, would you?

8 responses to “Did you just tell me to get a life!?”

  1. Good question! I think it depends on the person writing the blog and the people reading it. I have no idea where my blog is heading at the moment. Life is crazy at my house and I find blogging is the last thing on my list to do at the end of the day. I feel so guilty too, because I enjoy doing it and yet I am neglecting it and the beautiful people in the blogging world!

  2. you dont need to have a life to have a blog! let me show you with two examples.Here's my blog about my life, interests and thoughts:Aussie Dad blogNow, here is my other blog of funny stuffSee the difference? one is of my life, the other is stuff I find funny! So the funny one is a blog that is nothing about my life.I've also got a Adelaide and South Australia blog. Another blog nothing to do with my life.Therefore proof you dont need to have a life to have a blog :-)- tork

  3. Giggles. It's weird, I have days where so many little things happen, so I will sit and post and post and post. Then there are days when I struggle to think of something, and in come a wordless, image filled post *winks* [now I just revealed a secret].I try and join in with things, but then I get bored. And stop. I think since I have started blogging I have more of a life, does that even make sense?x

  4. I hate that saying about getting a life…exactly what does that mean, that you need to be famous, an expert, a professonial? Why cant you just be a conversationalist type of person, a good, kind person that people like?a normal person has a life, and some choose to blog in their spare time. I too never schedule things or plan and probably hit publish way too soon, but hey, maybe that is because I have a life that I am rushing to get back to.

  5. I have a life. Too busy a life. Too much of a life. A fast life. A weight loss running life. I blog to slow down…xx

  6. I always hit publish before I read it. If I read it then I tweak it repeatedly and it's never quite right. And I don't think bloggers are hiding behind their computers…we're sharing our lives with the world, even if our life is laundry and work, school, etc…the mundane!

  7. yeah.. i don't know. I thought the same thing about writing a book when i was young. then I had this incredibly tiring, dramarama life with a fulminant gangster style outcome – i had not even time to blog properly.. (not public anyway). now that my life finally evolves around the 'normal' dramas of family life, i am happy to blog about just that. i process the bigger stuff mostly in other ways. even when i don't have many comments, i still think you can have something to say even when not much is happening (plus for me it's basically English exercises too). Mundanity is ALWAYS relevant i believe. what's more important, is HOW you say things.And I personally find your blog entertaining :)

  8. I don't think you need to have a life but perhaps a certain take on things! I enjoy reading blogs of all types and if I find a blog is no longer interesting, I stop reading! I do however enjoy a good debate too so snarky comments are always interesting! Michelle

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