How to unsuccessfully explain one's own blogging topic selection process

Intresting thought on what subjects one picks when blogging... they can be appear to be rather arbitrary. How? Well, matters that I find very important won't necessarily find their way into my blog, for a number of reasons. For example, my four kids are really important to me, still I'm not keen at all to expose them on the internet. Other stuff, far more trivial for the world, like a new release of the Parrot virtual machine might actually be mentioned.

It is easy (ok, at least for me) to start thinking along the lines that "I should not blog about this because I haven't blogged about that specific (and more important) thing first, not to mention that other also important thing" and so on. That way of thinking have some logic in it but basically, I think it is a trap, a dead end which leads into no blogging taking place. It is a bit like when I get down to Gothenburg (my old town of birth which we moved away from for 12 years ago) and tries to see people down there: who I happen to see and who I don't might easily be a matter of random events happening, unexpected opportunities surfacing as well as expected meetings not taking place due to something cratering someone's schedule etc. Sure, there are choices taking place of who I try to see, but the slight (?) chaos of life easily circumvent those choices.

So what does that mean? Well, just because I don't see someone down in Gothenburg during the few weeks spent down there during the summer does not necessarily mean the the person does not matter. Same goes for blog topics, actually. The exclusion of some topics which from one point of view is important for me does not mean I should avoid other topics that are less important from that view.

I'm not writing this blog to express myself as whole, I'm free to leave out major parts I don't think fit. The important thing for me perhaps is to try to express the stuff I don't have time to express elsewhere. Or stuff that I would like to share with people even if I beforehand don't know who that would be.

Wow. A blog about why one is blogging. That's quite meta. That's also quite pathetic, but that's cool. I don't mind that much being a bit pathetic. Why pretend being someone else than myself?

Ok, see you.