I have a confession.

I’ve been spending more time on Flickr.com than on my own site. How pathetic am I?

I’ve been feeling lately as if my time is being severed minute by minute, into smaller increments – less time online equals more concentrated efforts. Unfortunately I’ve focused on photography more than updating my blog in past weeks. The attraction to flickr is the ability to simply post a picture and move on to other work, whereas this blog demands more carefully pruned energy.

I’m wondering what others think about this. Why do you blog? What drives you to continue to post and shout to the world through Times New Roman?

Is it the need to connect? To express the daily actions and adventures we partake on? Is it to branch out of our offline community and speak with those who share similar interests? Is it an escape for you? A way to express thoughts and opinions anonymously? A creative outpouring?

It’s almost as if I’m feeling that if I don’t have enough time to compose a decently written post, I shouldn’t write anything at all. All or nothin. Maybe I should get back to just blabbin whatever’s on my mind – no matter how insignificant.

I suppose the best answer I can give as to why I blog is this: It allows me to share the time spent in Indonesia with my future self, and anyone who’s listening. It’s as if I don’t do this, so much time and distance will have passed that it may become impossible to “catch up” with the memories. I would much rather share stories and images as they happen, rather than condensing them into a photo album that will rot on my coffee table – opened only to those passing through my front door on occasion.

I’m wondering what indeed will happen once I leave Indonesia. Will I continue to blog? Will anyone be interested in what I have to say? Or will this fade into a distant memory of a time and place that cannot be captured or explained by anything less than first hand accounts spoken to bleary eyed friends?