blogging essentials

I simply love reading blogs. Not those mambo-jambo blogs, but proper blogs of influential people, Of recent, I've taken liking to Anita Roddick's blogs. To me her blogs are not superficial (like some blogs that I've come across); truthful and rantings of her life encounters and etc.

I do wish sometimes I could be as transparent as some when it comes to blogging. Prior to this, I have never blogged and never even heard of the term blogging. The whole blogging phenomena began almost 3-4 years ago, when RedRibbon Days was still being conceived. Anyways, my point is - when it comes to blogging - how much truth are we blogging, and how much information about yourself can you put out there? Some bloggers are paid to blog about something (which to me defeats the whole purpose of blogging) and some people blogs about nonsense. Why would I be bothered to read about someone that blogs about what they dream of when they sleep or how they sleep?
(trust me, I've indeed come across such a posting!)

As hard as I want to put my heart and soul into blogging, certain things do hold me back. Can I really be that politically correct about everything I want to say ? In the first place, I don't even know who is reading my blog, and who will be reading my blogs. I've written many blogs only to have "select all" and "delete". In fact, to some blogs posting, I do not even have the courage to put it up. These I am referring to very petty and insignificant happening around my life and of course, in RedRibbon Days.

So, if I can't blog and rant as much as I want, what is the point of blogging and why bother?