A Monetarist View on Blogs

    I sit here, unable to conjure up any ideas that interest me enough to write 250 words about them, and somehow tie it back to economics. Perhaps this is a sign, a signal that I should move on with my life and write something original and non-economic for the first time. I could tie it back to swim or maybe some other facet of my life that makes me appear more like a multidimensional figure. However, I struggle to reconcile myself with the notion of moving beyond economics. 

 

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An image I added mainly to increase the aesthetic appeal of my blog cover, if it weren't for the fact that this is a supposed representation of myself typing the blog

 

If I couldn’t tie it back to economics, does it reflect poorly on my intellect and creative capabilities? How does this blog affect other’s perception of me? I doubt that most people who read my blog do so to glean further insights into who I am as a person, looking down at my comments it’s generally populated with the same group of people responding to different flavors of the same base. But perhaps this moping is the cure to all my aliments. Hurry is the death of prayer, so perhaps laziness is the birth of ideas. Does each marginal unit of thought converted into pixels for unmotivated 11 AP Lang students to comment on really improve social benefit?

 

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An accurate representation of William reading my blog 


 

I may have completed this assignment physically, looking at my word counter as I approach 250, but have I done it in earnest? The spirit of writing and the purpose of this blog isn’t for me to ramble on about my current thoughts to earn a grade, it’s to force me to think and to write beyond the classroom. Integrating real world ideas with the concepts I discussed in a classroom setting. The nominal value of my blog may have increased, with the number of words growing consistently every week (a perhaps monetarist approach to blog writing), yet my real value is stagnant.

 

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Me eagerly submitting my blog, only for Mrs. Valentino to only pretend to look at it

 

I consider now the fact that Mrs. Valentino probably won’t even notice this mishap in the grander scheme of things. I still firmly believe that she has long since cast away my blog into the trash heap of 11th graders long forgotten. If I put a dishonest title, does it bring in more views? Am I justified to lie about the purpose of this blog in order for recognition in a class I’ll forget about within a couple of years? Perhaps this existentialist view of blog writing is what I needed for Valentino to finally read my blog…

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