The Introduction of J.U.C.E.

Hello WordPress community and all you other meandering readers who have happened to stumble across this new blog. Welcome to new, first and only blog! ….okay then…Well i guess to get things started i suppose i should share why I’ve decided to start a blog…seem easy enough.
The first reason, i suppose, is that i like the idea of blogging. The internet provides us with a means of putting our opinions out there, for better or for worse, for the world to see. Granted, average people have always had, and will always have a multitude of opinions. As my dad says, “Opinions are like elbows, everyone has a couple.” And while this is the case the idea of expressing opinions in an articulate manner in public is a very empowering thing, especially for the individual. Despite my best efforts not to be, I’ve always been a fairly opinionated person. I tend to blame this on my Libra sign of justice. Even to say i rarely share my opinion would be a lie because i’m constantly giving quasi-objective advice to friends on their relationships. Hey, if they ask I tell’em what i think. And sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn’t. But I do rarely ever share my opinions on some of the more obscure topics i think about…idk, for example, say the benefits of Antioxidants in the average persons diet. Not that i have a serious opinion on that at the moment, but I do like the idea that this is a concern for many people and that i can read up on it and share my opinion, if it ever occurs to me to do so, for friends and others to read and care about or not. Hmm..in a way i guess i just defined blogging. A blog is essentially a place where a person can articulate his or her opinions, thoughts, desires etc. I’m sure there are a 100 holes in that definition, but whatever i like it.
The second reason is as simple as i like writing. More specific I like language and i find it as very possibly the most fantastic thing humans have ever created. The complexity of any language in any part of the world is far beyond that of any other form of communication for the common man. The only thing better would be telepathy. Telepathy is an interest i’ll discuss at some point in a blog someday. Back to topic, I like language and writing because i love stories. Stories define the true power of humanity. The ability to create limitlessness though imagination. I’ve always been a kind of pseudo-artist and loved to draw as a kid and growing up. But i was never able to make art in that way real artists can make art. Like, i can create a likeness but it doesn’t evoke feelings and draw attention like that of a true artist who’s art is the story. Counter to that, my pictures were pieces of a story that could not covey the depth of it. I’m hoping that makes sense. Anyway, this blog should hopefully help me develop my writing ability to be able to create the story i want to create. Mainly though discipline and repetition. I keep the idea that most human mental functions are like that of muscles. If you keep doing it you get better at it, stronger at it and it becomes second nature. With good writing habits I should be able to sit down and dish out something. Whether it be interesting or lame. Something is better that nothing when it comes to personal development.
The third reason is this venue may be similar to a diary or a journal for me. Without a doubt some people use their blogs for just that reason. I mentioned to a friend last night about how lucky as humanity were able to find the journals and diaries of some of the most intelligent people ever to live. Einstein, Gandhi, Roosevelt. (I’ll admit I’ve never read any of these, but I have read Gandhi’s autobiography and found it enlightening but with many parts smoothed over.) To see the world though their eyes, hear though their ears (so to speak) and feel it though their hearts. Even an autobiography cannot convey those feelings as raw as they are when written by that person at the end of the day and when they are still stewing in those feelings of love, anger, regret and even exhaustion. The idea that there are many more great minds who’s personal feelings will never be known is sad to me. And more than that, what defines a great mind? Certainly not that a person becomes famous by one means or another. I think everyone has a great mind and should know their thoughts and be able to put them down on some type of venue. Whether on paper or computer keyboard. Collecting thoughts is akin to mining for gold. You dig though immense stone and dirt of our minds and from time to time you find a nugget. But if never recorded to be addressed at another time when it may become really useful, it may as well be dropped to the floor and buried by more dirt, stone and rubble.
So that’s my blog entry for today. No.1. I feel good about writing this much. I hope it wasn’t too long and boring.
OH RIGHT!!! I forgot.
So for the next 30 days or so I’m working on a 30-day writing challenge. It should be fitting for getting this blog started. So ill update with the first challenge really soon. I was supposed to start the 30 days on November 1st, but i’m hella late, it now being the third and me just now writing my first blog entry. This is apart of that whole discipline thing i spoke about earlier. I guess that’s it for now. Comments and constructive criticisms are definitely welcome. 
Peace,
Juce