All entries for Saturday 02 February 2008

Reflections

About an hour ago I was motivated to start reading through my blog from the very beginning. I’m very concious of the way the number of entries I’ve made since leaving Warwick has tailed off significantly. I never intended to “stop” commenting on the world because frankly I have too many opinions for it to be good for me. I guess the amount of time and impetus for blogging has gone away. Whereas when within the Warwick bubble you have a small community within the world, a group of 15000 people united by a common factor, in the outside world everything is a much bigger place, with many more “grown up” calls on your time. I assume my award for stating the bleeding obvious should be on the way shortly at this point…

So anyway, I’ve been reading through my entries from the very beginning and what’s really interesting is that reading through all of the posts I can pick out a history of my last two years at Warwick but in much more detail than expected. I can see where I was spending a lot of time with one group of friends or another. The sheer variety in what I was doing every day at uni is incredible, as is the articulation in my posts. I honestly think my quality of English has degraded significantly in comparison. Early posts talk about philosophy (Is the world black and white, or is there a grey area?), about music (I’m also enjoying listening to all the random music tracks that I referenced my life to), work with societies and of course friends. I always remembered that my blog was pathetically self serving and worryingly emotional. Surprisingly it’s not anywhere near as bad as I remembered… either this means I remember it being far worse, or else I blocked out whole sections of my mind when blogging.

When the events you blog about involve more people than just yourself, it’s much easier to get two way communication happening again. I particularly like comments like this on:

Do you speak in code for security reasons or just for fun?
Laura.

This is of course something I still do today and it’s mostly because I’ve learned a whole new language of code (Rolls-Royce) and therefore I am able to be geeky on a whole new level. It’s great just to go back and laugh at everything that’s gone before, and the best bit about all of it? I don’t regret a moment, not even those self pitying moments, or the times when I was less happy. I truly loved Warwick, especially the last two years, and I respect it for the education it gave me. Through my blog I can see my development and understanding in so many different ways, in music, in sound, in computer technology in people. Interesting then that my writing abilities have gone the opposite direction…

Trips down memory lane can be fun, and shouldn’t be indulged too often, but I will be making much of the early blog available to signed in readers only. I can’t help feeling a corporate blogging system might help companies develop more of a community atmosphere inside though, because that diversity and bit beyond “every day” is so rewarding. I’m going to read the rest of my blog now…

Christopher Hinds : 02 Feb 2008 14:38 |  Tags: Blogging Life Past Music |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem