Living Your Life to Blog

Just time for a quick post before bed.

On my drive back from Suffolk this evening I was listening to the Westminster Hour and, in particular, the Sunday Supplement slot in which Gyles Brandreth discussed political diaries.

One of his interviewees made the point that keeping a diary changes the way you live. You start behaving in different ways, saying things you wouldn’t otherwise say and generating opportunities to make your life more interesting, just so you can record it in your diary. It’s an interesting idea, and it’s one that can extend to blogging, I think. I’ve certainly gone places and done things just so I can photograph them, or blog about them. And I’m struggling to see this as a bad thing. In an age when many people just passively consume what’s fed to them through the TV, anything which forces you to make your life more remarkable has to be a good thing, doesn’t it?

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