Behind the Blog - Are People Really Living Up to What They Post in Their Online Journal?

Many people need a place to put down all those deep dark thoughts that they would never say out in public for fear of someone in a large white coat knocking at their door. Many of the rest publish a blog, or online journal, to validate their way of life and have a record of how they saw their daily activities. There are a select few though that publish a journal just to be showy and gloss over things to make themselves feel better, or sway people to thinking that they are really in more control than they really are. This article is my experience with a person of the latter.

I have been the owner of a journal for several years, and I have done my journal in a very uncensored manor. Listing the names of my offspring, the fights with my significant other, the scary moments when I thought I was going to lose my newborn. It was my life and I thought it was very freeing to write it all down and get over the bad moments and share the good ones with friends. I have some very close friends due to my online journal and had not censored any of my cursing, nor hid any of my proud mommy moments and they loved me, and still do, for the truth in my writing, the truth that is me. I would came to know someone that used to write in her little journals and keep a record of her thoughts and activities but became so overcome with the thought that someone might find it one day that she claims she got rid of them all.

She felt that she was living in a glass house because she adopted from foster care and from overseas. Her small family of 2 children and 2 adults came to be that of 11 children, soon to be 12 and she got enough critizing and staring when she went anywhere in public. Or so she said. She did articles for the newspapers, and spoke at homeschool functions, volunteered to have parents over to speak about adoption. Always telling them about how much she does and how she has to do it all. Not wanting her adopted children to feel like slaves and make sure that they bond with her and think of her as their mother. What an idealic picture she paints in her perfect house. But at what cost?