Moonomo.
My theory is all humans want to be remembered.
Famous people have it made- they end up in history books.
The rest of us, hope that someone will remember us.
Before the Internet and computers - Writers were the "Elite Of The Fleet" - their books got published and stocked on bookstore and library shelves for future readers to uncover and briefly raise up the window back to the past.
Thanks to technology we live in Real Time. We can share our hopes, dreams, successes, failures with readers and hope that in some dusty corner of the Internet our comments get filed away to be uncovered by a future reader.
As a writer and blogger, I just want to say:
I was here.
I loved.
I hated.
I laughed.
I cried.
I succeeded.
I failed.
I'm a person in the past, who, no doubt, went through what the person in the present and the reader in the future is going through.
Our differences in Time and Space might be separated by technology; but, human nature is like the sun rise - it continues.
The man who put the harness on the horse to hook it to the buckboard really isn't that different from the man who slides into the seat of his sport utility van and puts the key in the ignition because earning a living is a constant of human nature.
I became a blogger to set up shop in my little corner of the present. Someday, in the future, I would hope a reader strolls by my desk and opens up the dusty electronic bound volume of writings.
If he or she, kicks back in a comfortable chair and wipes their eyes from moisture and then, snickers and burst out laughing, then, I will have left the emotions in my writing that will have survived my brief presence in the world.
I am here. I was here. I would hope I cause future readers to think about what was written and when it was written. As a writer and blogger, I want to leave future readers with moist eyes and a smile.
Sam