Woohoo! Another new prompt! Almost.
Man, if only I would have seen this topic, ONE DAY SOONER!
Why?
I blog because I love to write! I think it’s the natural evolution of journaling, which for me started in sixth grade. That was the first time I ever wrote down any of my thoughts and hopes on a semi-regular basis.
It’s therapeutic
and, as I’m sure, any of my fellow bloggers out there can attest, blogging became somewhat therapeutic for me. It became away for me to clear my head. But it also became away for me to sort out my thoughts, to process things. Sometimes if I have a question about something, I’m dealing with in my life, I write about it. If I write about it and think about it, eventually, I come to some sort of solution.
A living record
I blog because I want a living record of the events in my life. I like having something to tell me about what I was thinking or feeling at a particular day or date. One of my favorite things to do with my blog recently has been going back exactly 3 months, six months, a year, maybe even longer, to see where I was at in my life and in my head on some of those milestone dates.
The Rebuild
12 years ago, I started this blog as I was in the middle of dealing with my separation and impending divorce from one. I chose the name “Rebuilding Rob” because I felt like I was burden with a task of rebuilding my life. I moved out of the home that by then wife, kid one and I shared together. But I also left South Carolina. I returned to Michigan with my tail between my legs, and my pride wounded. I had thought that this blog would be a living journal of my attempts to rebuild my life.
Regrets? I have two.
I think my two great regrets about this blog. This far have been that I stopped blogging as much as I did when I was with two. There are a couple of periods of one to two years were, I did not put a single post here. Looking back, I wish I had a record of the dissolution of that relationship.
My other great regret of this blog I said I did not write more during the Covid lockdown of 2020 and beyond. I think mentally, I was just putting myself into survival mode at that point. I was teaching, trying to keep things together as much as I could for my students, I had rediscovered Star Trek reruns at that time for my own self-help. But I wish that I had, again, a journal of my thoughts at that most unusual time in our lives.
My ultimate goal
As I talked about yesterday‘s post, my great hope for this blog was to spread awareness and creative support network for for men who are dealing with divorce and their own mental health issues. Our society today, we are always told “be a man. Be tough. Don’t cry. Work your ass off, providing for others until you die.” There is more to the lab. And although I feel like I may have missed the Mark I’m being some sort of an out or social media Pioneer, I’m glad to see that there are lots of people talking about these issues today on the Internet and on social media in particular.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the rebuild never ends. To that end, this blog will never end. Sure, it may evolve some new mutation of digital media, but it’s here to stay.
Why do you blog?
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- The Boy Who Looked at His Feet
- Even White People Get Ashy
- The Tricorder in My Pocket
- Challenger 40: The Generational Echo
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