Writing and the silent

Here's a question:

Who do bloggers write for?

I personally don't really have a specific answer to that question. My blog has a relatively low number of views, so even if I am blogging for the readers my blog (as of thus far) has not been very successful. However, one other reason I might choose to write my blog would be for personal development and the ability to recollect my own thoughts in a more organised manner than if they were in my head. Also, I probably need to improve my writing style if I am to succeed at my chosen university course of History, so there is one thing.

While I say those words, however, I have always loved writing even from a young age, suggesting there is a lack of truth in the reasons I just gave. When I was 6 I'm pretty sure I was not too concerned about my future in the historical arts, and when I wrote I wrote stories, never a diary making much of my childhood hard to remember. Perhaps I write for something more, to satisfy some human need to communicate. To me, my thoughts go unsatisfied if I do not share them with others. I am a person that wants other people to know what I think, and I want to know what other people think on the same topics. In this way, I cannot understand those who are the "strong, silent types" who seem to give little care to whether people know what they are thinking or not. One of the most fantastic aspects of humanity is the ability to communicate, and to disregard that is to take for granted the evolutionary gift we have been given.

One final thing. While I talk of people who do not speak much, I would like to read the blog of someone who is considered to be the "strong, silent type", and see what really drives such people to say as little as they do. By no means is this necessary for me to continue functioning, but I would like to understand the types of people who are so different to me. Perhaps it is shyness, or perhaps it is something more to do with valuing your own thoughts over those of others (both admirable and arrogant), but I would really like to know.

So if anyone has any links to any types of blogs mentioned, please don't hesitate to send them my way. :D.

Much Love,

Conor.