Why write this blog?

It’s my first time publishing a personal blog–or at least the first time I intend to use one substantially to record my thoughts and feelings. I used to hold the somewhat solipsistic belief that ideas and feelings are not really worth spreading; instead, the only thing that matters is they appear real at the moment I experience them. But I gradually came to realize that beliefs, ideas, even feelings, can take a concrete shape only after being deliberated and written down, ready for examination by an audience who may or may not share the contexts in which I initially conceive them. This blog therefore is not only a search for intersubjectivity–for shared memories and emotions, but also an opportunity for me to hold a more critical attitude toward my own thoughts and feelings, and to render them clearer through expression.