Why I write

Humans have always and ever written for two general purposes. One, and I would contend the more admirable purpose, is that of recording information. This can take more forms than many people think about, the record of a person's feelings so they can go back and critique themselves.

The second reason for writing is for another audience. In the blogging world unfortunately this is most often prompted by narcissism. In fact, narcissism has permeated the blogging world until it effectively has characterized the practice. This was my primary concern when I decided to start this blog, was the narcissism that so often accompanies people's desire to write.

This now brings the question as to why I write a blog. To be completely honest, I follow the first path or reasoning. I desire to record my thoughts and feelings so that in the future I can look back at who I was and better develop the person I want to be. If however this is my purpose, one can only ask why don't I just write a journal and keep it in my vast system of archives that is my computer disk.

First, let it be known that I do not want a huge swath of people following me and reading this, I only want the people who find it useful. My mother, an avid blogger, offered to teach me the tricks of the trade to develop a wide base of readers and followers but since I'm not in a trade so to speak I gratefully declined.

When I say useful, I firmly believe in an almighty God. I believe in his son Jesus Christ, and his Holy Spirit. I believe God can use what ever I produce to help others, thus when I hide what I go through, my experience limited as it is, I limit what God can do with that. For this reason, and this reason ALONE I am posting this online.

"Steganography" it it's greek means "concealed writings" that is exactly what this record is. With a name like Steganography, the audience looking for that name will not be interested in what my blog has to offer and thus will most likely skip me by. The only thing that might keep someone on my blog is is God leads them here. For all intents and purposes, these are "Concealed Writings"...

This all leads to one final question, what exactly will this blog look like? I can't say, only that it will be an accurate record of what I feel. If I watch a movie and want to express what I think, you will find it here. If I go through a Biology or English class where I stand for Christ, you will find a record of the experience here. If I fail in some aspect of my life, you will find that record here.

With my intentions outlined I will try to post often, but my life isn't going to be spent recording for the sake of recording, so if posts don't come it's because more important than recording life, I'm living my life...