After much prompting from a few close friends I have decided to embark on a dangerous voyage into the world of blogging. I have been told numerous times that I should be blogging. That I should be writing. It didn’t matter what I wrote just as long as I was writing. After putting it off for far longer than I should have, here I am.

“What’s the big deal?” you ask. “Why is it a dangerous voyage?” you question.

At first glance you would be right to question such statements. How could anyone be afraid to blog? It is simply writing your thoughts down on the internet. I fear it is much more than that however. It is allowing a part of me to be put out for the entire world, or at least the few who manage to read, to see. There is a fear that I have that what I write may be laughed at scorned or rejected by the reader. The comments may never appear, the site visits may dwindle to nothing and I will be left with a voice that only I can hear. That was a risk that I was unwilling to take until today.

I realize today that to avoid the risk would be far worse than failure. To never step out into the blogoshpere would be a tragic mistake that I would regret far the rest of my life. Failure lasts only as long as it takes to learn from the mistakes made. Fear of making a mistake however will last a lifetime. So today I risk failure…