Analysis of the blog

So, let me tell you about my blog, it's this thing, a tool, and whatever it might seem, I don't write it for others, I write it for myself. I write the blog so that I can express, reflect, and later analyse and understand my feelings. I write the blog so I'll remember little details I would have forgotten. Why don't I keep a diary instead? Why make it public? I do write a diary, and it's either like reading a log of what I've done or a chaotic stream of thoughts, but when I write a blog, make it potentially public, I create a narrative, a reason to use words in a way that is neither too logical or too emotional, a reason to keep a thread of story while breaking down my experiences. I now post links on facebook because I want people to have the option of reading it, but rarely am I writing it for other people's  benefit, although, yesterday was one such occasion, the opportunity to explain that if I don't write it's because I don't want to write, usually because I'm struggling but I have nothing to gain by analysing that struggle. Sometimes I don't write because I know it will put me in a worse place, and I can't have that. Thank you to everyone who comments, if I don't reply, it's usually for the reason above.