The point of posting

This blog has been around for about 4 years now, and the number of posts has been quickly diminishing. I believe the last post was a somewhat cryptic and depressing post by my friend (though if you knew him you'd know what it was about, so I digress).

I kept reminding myself, I need to get on and blog. I haven't posted in forever. My last post was a boring and unfunny piece about my gastroparesis diagnosis last year. I need to get back in and do the funny stuff I started out with, and still enjoy going back and reading!

But I just haven't been able to do it. I'll start a post, do maybe two or three paragraphs, and stop. Sometimes the ideas run dry, sometimes I realize I can't make a long post about something I started. Sometimes I just lost interest and wondered what the point was - who'd be reading it anyway?

So, I started making up excuses. I was too busy at work, I'd say (yet I had 3 day weekends). I need time to come up with some ideas (what am I, a novelist?). I have other things on my mind (I don't have a girlfriend at the moment, what could possibly be distracting me?).

As an aside I turned to social networking. I started off with Myspace, which was interesting for about 5 minutes. I'd get excited that people wanted to add me as friends, only for me to discover that they were either Nigerian scam artists, or just people who wanted to bump up their friends count. I can't really seem to grasp the concept of Twitter, which I signed up for after a friend sent me an invite. 140 character post limit? "Today I worked, came home, and watched TV." Riveting.

So I've been spending most of my time on Facebook. It's interesting in that I've got several people on my friends list that I have not talked to in awhile. I figured, hey, this will be cool - we don't have to e-mail as much, I'll make new friends, and can do like a little mini-blog! Well, I still don't communicate that much with friends I used to e-mail alot, my delusion that my account would be like a personals ad and get me interested females was broken, and as far as mini-blogging - I barely sign on to it these days even to make a "what are you doing right now" post.

So the cycle continues - making up excuses for why I'm not getting onto Facebook to do stuff. And really, there are no excuses, I just haven't been going. I don't know why. I guess I'm just not getting the point right now. Maybe it's a really really long writer's block. Maybe I've gotten so jaded over the last few years that I just don't care about "networking" or expressing my ideas. Who knows. Maybe I will come back to this blog in force. Maybe I'll make daily posts on Facebook. Maybe this is the start of it all.

I guess I just don't have a point, which happens to be the point.