"Why blog?" would perhaps be a more apt title. That's something I've asked myself for a while. I kept feeling like I should give it a try, but kept thinking there wasn't much point. Who would want to listen to my random ramblings? It's not like I'm alone in the blogging world. In fact, my first choice for the address was already taken. I'm not famous. At this point, I have no agenda to push.
This could lead to someone( if anyone reads this) to possibly ask why bother? Here is why, for me:
1.I'm tired of finding excuses to NOT do something. All these ideas I have in my head of things I want to do, often just stay there.
2. Hopefully by publicly declaring a project or two, it might give me the incentive to do and finish them. This is something I learned from NaNoWriMo. By starting this Blog project, hopefully it will help push a few other projects I want to do into becoming a reality.
3. Harry Potter
Ok, so that would be the next why. Why Harry Potter? The title of this blog is "You Could Miss It" which is in reference to one of my favorite movies: Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In it he says something like, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it." That idea has stuck with me ever since I saw the movie for the first time, which is longer ago now than I want to admit. But what, you might ask, does that have to do with Harry Potter?
I just saw the final installment of the Harry Potter movies. There is a lot I could say about that: what was good; what was lacking/different from the book; how happy I am to have been able to see the end; how sad I am that it was the end. It has been a bittersweet time for me. However, I want to focus on the topic at hand. I started reading Harry Potter a bit later than most. I didn't begin until 2001, when 4 books were already out. If you do the math, you'll realize that it has been 10 years since I fell into reading and watching Harry Potter...and loving the ride. Ten years...ten years have gone by and it has seemed so quick. I realized on the way home after the movie that a decade has passed far too quickly for my liking. Which reminded me, as I am so often, about just how true those words of Ferris truly are.
It made me come to the conclusion that, perhaps, it is time to stop asking, "why?" and start asking, "why not?" Which is the very reason I wrote this today.
