To Blog Or Not To Blog...Annonymously

After a most terrific weekend, I'm feeling absolutely exhausted and even though I forced myself to go to bed early to catch up on my sleep, I instead find myself tossing and turning not being able to doze off. Rather then continue to be in agony, I decided to update my blog instead..

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Since I started my blog, my initial decision was to maintain the blog annonymously without revealing any details that could be traced to myself. This way, I can blog about pretty much whatever I wanted without the fear that something I write will be misinterpreted and offend someone else.

However, as time went by, I realized that keeping the blog annonymous in some way defeated the purpose of why I started a blog in the first place. The primary reason being able to express my thoughts whatever they may be without any ramifcation or fear of repercussion.

Many of my personal experiences involve my family and friends and I was hesitant to post information about them as most of them are unaware of this blog (and I intend to keep it that way) so asking for their permission to post is out of the question. There is also this nagging irrational fear of them being linked to myself which also reduces the possibility of maintaining annoymity.

I really want to post whatever I want but then I face the fact that because of the nature of a blog, its actually accessible to anyone with a browser and an Internet connection. But then I ask myself, why am I so afraid of posting personal information in my blog? In the first place, my head must be rather big to think anyone would be bothered to read my blog at all but thats a post for another day :)

Perhaps at the end of the day, I still have this fear that whatever I reveal or express will be abused by total strangers to be used as ammunition against me in whatever way. Am I going to live my life having all these sorts of irrational fears?