I mostly avoid blogging

because everyone blogs. And to be frank, I mostly don’t read ‘em. Between the seeming (and sometimes legitimate) lackluster of reading in general and the tendency for people to write about things they feel at the moment (I even read Donald Miller admit to this yesterday, and I consider that pretty legitimate proof it is happening all over the place) without taking the time to empathize with the other half of the readers, I often finish someone’s post feeling empty, or like arguing with them. I think this is due to the fact that blogging is usually the news of your own head… What is happening right now in your thoughts as they come to you. It can be very interesting, yes. Inspired even. But time-tested, not usually. And I like the test of time.

Or let me rephrase that… I HATE the test of time but I TRUST what has passed the test.

Which means I think the best blogs would be either simply instructive on how to do technical, tangible things, or written by old wrinkly men and women who have lived long enough through the experiences of time that they exhale wisdom on a subject.

I have a love for the passion of people my age, but I don’t have much respect for it, especially in myself (if I am being humble, though i rarely am, I can see my acts of passion deserve little respect). Yes, a little respect here and there… We are, in fact, good about “getting up off our asses,” but doesn’t that beg the question, why do people “sit down” as they get older? What do they know that we don’t? Were they so active in passionate pursuits of their youth that when they stopped to catch their breath and turned to see the fruit of their labors, there sat a dying shrub instead of a shady tree? And all they can do now is set themselves down to think?

I want to listen to those sitting people who have had time to think. I want to listen to the ones who did not over-exert themselves in passion, but humbled themselves with slower work, and are now greeted by a tree with shade. But I find it difficult to hear (or read) in the internet world around me. Because of technology, I rarely read anything from the older and wiser. Most things I read online are relevant for a day, a week, or perhaps a year or two. They are half-baked for demand, instead of fully-baked for health.

Do you think so? Does that even make sense?