To Blog or Twoo Blave?*

Anyone who's seen the movie, The Princess Bride, will understand this title? Internet surfing is a lateral, stream of consciousness activity for me. In fact, I despised the early Internet because I could never find my way back from where I'd started. Even now, it takes some time to figure out how many links I followed to end up where I am two hours later.

I use RSS feeds to alert me to blog posts of a handful of writers, mostly marketing related. Seth Godin writes a post advocating blogging, even if you have only one post in you. When I started blogging, I was scared. I didn't want to reveal too much personal stuff. But after a few timid entries, I found my voice. I like to believe my blog serves a higher purpose as a public service. But at the end of the day, it's a fun, creative outlet with no pressure to make money at it.

Seth says, ..."what if there's just one thing you need to say, but you can say it clearly and well and in a way that hasn't been said before?"

I scroll through the trackbacks and there's Mr. Besilly's blog post entitled, "10 Life Lessons From Princess Bride."

Here's #10: "Fairy tales are a great reminder that happy endings are possible if you believe in them. We sacrifice for those things we believe in."

I don't want to spoil the fun. You have to visit his blog for #1-9.

I'm glad he had this post in him. And I'm glad I scrolled and clicked and found something of value. Sometimes that's all it takes.

*translation: True Love