Blogging = Vanity?

A while ago, my big bro said to me: “V, you should really start a blog so you can get your ideas out to other people.” While I recognized the merits of blogging, there was definitely some internal debate. Having grown up in Taiwan and raised with traditional Chinese values, I’ve always been told humility is the highest virtue. This means one should never emphasize the concept of ’self’; if one really had to, do so with utmost subtlety. The essence of blogging is all about self-expression and and celebrating individual thought, which is in direct conflict with the self-less ideologies taught to me. Certainly, blogging is meant to help people network and build community, but I nonetheless saw it as a form of vanity through my culture-specific lenses. Afterall, are my thoughts so amazing that they deserve to be typed up and shared with the masses?! But how else am I to build credibility as a conceptual thinker if there’s no visible proof of my mental processes?!

Alas, after much debate and deliberation, I finally started this thing up. So here it is! The very first verification entry that this brain of mine be THINKING! However, please note this short disclaimer: contents of this blog are by no means superior to the thoughts of any other intellectual being. Different perhaps, but not better than. Humility will be, first and foremost, the predominant theme to run throughout.