Personal Problems

I read an article in the Deseret News today about a woman whose blog has become so wildly popular that her husband quit working and she just blogs for a living. The article mentioned that on her blog she discussed things like being sent to the mental hospital for a few days. It makes me wonder if blogging about my personal issues would make my blog more popular? Perhaps it would, heaven only knows I've got some crazy stuff rattling around in my head from time to time. Maybe I should take a "Katie bar the door" attitude and start blogging away about all aspects of my personal life. Although it is sort of conceited to immediately assume that because my personal issues are a source of never-ending fascination for me, that they would be of equal interest to other people as well.

I did stumble across a blog late one night that kept me up for hours. It was some divorced girl detailing the demise of her marriage. She went on and on for pages about every single aspect of their initial meeting, courtship, engagement, marriage, and post-wedding life, and I mean ever detail. She described the outfit she was wearing when they first met. This author took turns blaming herself, the ex-husband, her nasty college roommates, her witchy mother-in-law, and even her primary teachers for having ever married the guy in the first place. It was horrible, but it was like a trainwreck, I couldn't stop reading. I couldn't decide if it was fascinating solely based on the fact that she was a bit of a fruitloop, or because she was additionally willing to share all aspects of her dysfunctional marriage with strangers online.

I'm going to have to think about this. Maybe it's time I start making my posts more personal.