The "Real" World...

So now that I've told you the history of blogs, some might be asking "what took so long for you to write one Bobby?". Well, I think there is always hesitation about putting yourself out there for other people to read and analyze and critique. There is a fear of rejection or of someone reading my heart-poured-out-thoughts and trashing it. But you know what, I think I'm at a place in my life where I don't really care about what people think. "What place are you in Bobby?" you might ask. Well, I'm 26, single, and unemployed. It don't get much better than that. The only way that could get any better is if I was living in my parents' basement. Which would be even more impressive since my parents don't have a basement. You see, basements in Texas are about as useful as a midget in a tall contest.............meaning they're not.

So anyway, I've been thinking, when will I reach the "real" world? All I heard in middle school was that I needed to be ready for high school "because that's when I hit the real world". Then during high school it's "prepare for college...it's the real world". Then when you're in college, all anyone will tell you is that college is the golden age and once you graduate "you hit the real world". Even after working at a camp, all I hear is that I'm leaving for a job in the "real world". My main question, what is the real world? Is it something that MTV has put on the air, throwing random people together living in a house where everyone hooks up? That's not the real world, that's just a freaking episode of "Friends". Does this mean that I've been living in a make-believe world complete with unicorns and dragons?

I don't know what signifies living in the real world but I'm very curious to find out....

The Beginning...

So this is an attempt to convey my thoughts on random subjects. Sometimes it will be funny (at least I'll think so), sometimes it will be serious (hey, you never know), but hopefully it will put things out there that you have thought about before, as a twenty-something or a future/former twenty-something (cause this is a family blog, ya know?).

I would love your feedback, comments, agreements, criticisms, everything. This is basically a free ticket into the mind of Bobby. Dangerous, but for the betterment of mankind.

I thought it would be beneficial to all of you who didn't grow up with the blog network or for those who still live in a hunter/gatherer society to clue you in on the origination of blogs. Blogs started back in the early 1600's as a way of passing news to many families in many different regions. There was no primitive mail system, just blogs. A family would gather many sheets of paper and copy life and family news (much like present-day Christmas cards) onto each sheet of paper. As each sheet was finished it would be attached to the foot of a pigeon (or a similar bird native to that land) and sent out to the various destinations. These letters, or "logs", being distributed by birds brought on the name "bird-logs", which was of course later shortened to what we know now...."blogs".




Ok, so that's not really how they started but it seems like a pretty good guess. See ya next time...