“This blog has been created and is now the answer to all problems that my reader’s may come upon!” is what the sarcastic part of my mind wanted to say when I made this blog. It was too easy. Easy in such a casual way that I felt like I was jipping my future readers. The creation of something that people use as a medium to give to the world their emotions and thoughts should be harder. Right? Jewish people, for instance, take several years to prepare one Torah. One congregation populated by no more than 200 people will purchase this holy book. My blog is open to, to an extent, any age, nationality, gender, or religion and it took me less time than it takes to scribe at most half a page of the Jewish people’s connection with God. At first this incongruity annoyed me, but then I got it: the casual and unassuming nature of blogs is the reason for their beauty. Whereas sometimes bringing to life a means of communication can be a ceremony that puts the medium on an unnecessary pedestal, a blog is the kind of communication that does not come from a pedestal or higher power. The blog comes from the surf kneeling below royalty. A blog is the underdog that we root for. Although I now understand the purpose of blogs in a deeper sense, I do see a danger in this lowering of the pedestal. The accessibility and roughness of a blog could make the reader feel that because he or she did not work for it and are not looking up to it, the blog is not worthy of deep interpretation. To protect our minds from this danger, I employ my readers to not think of blogs as the unwrapped present we look at and say, “Oh, he must have just bought that at Target,” but more as the gift that does not need decoration.
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