Dear Paolo,
I've been following your blog for some time now and I am duly impressed that, amidst your busy schedule, you have been finding time, and money, to write a post every now and then. It has been several weeks already and you haven't neglected it, a far cry from your first attempt at blogging where you never wrote a post at all.
With this, I want to point to you some concerns of mine regarding your entries. Yes, the inclusion of biblical passages at the end of each post is a nice touch, as it is your own pathetic way of encapsulating your experiences and relating it to the Bible. Your intention of including these passages ("So that people who read my blog can also read a portion of the Bible and thus may not be left in the dark") is "admirable" or, should I say, amusing.
But unfortunately, that is the only positive thing I can say about your blog. This is because your entries are but sordid attempts to document your life. Though there is nothing wrong in pursuing such an endeavor, I believe this goal is too limited, too narcissistic, too ordinary, too "not you".
As I remember, you have had high hopes for this blog. When you were in college, your overall (and downright corny) ambition was: to speak and write for those who could not. In writing this blog, you envisioned to write those topics which you were passionate about but which others never cared to write.
Where are these topics now, Paolo? Do I see them in your blog? I'm afraid not because you were busy writing about your stupid work, writing about mundane things which do not reflect anything at all about you.
I ask you now. Have you written anything about something or someone you truly care about? Have you written something about your family? About your mother and father and the love story they share? About your sisters and how deeply you care about them? About your brothers and how proud you are of what they can do and how you regret deeply that you were not a very good kuya? About your extended families, your lolas and lolos, your cousins, your titos and titas, each and every one of them who has a testimony about life that only you are interested to write? Have you ever written about your lovelife, or the people you've met in high school, college, and now, at work? Have you written about your convictions in life, your interests, your stance on issues, your view of religion, of Christianity, of politics, of your dreams and ambitions, of your insecurities and frustrations, of your personality and of other people's stories, of your hopes and your joys? About God?
I am asking you this because I want to remind you. Your blog must not simply be an avenue to talk about your everyday happenings, or of the latest products, movies, books, whatever. It is supposed to be more than that. It is where you bare your soul to the world.
Please do not disappoint me. Before you started this blog of yours, you knew that this is what you want to happen. Now, it's time to set the record straight.
Sincerely,
Paolo Ray E. Bataller
I've been following your blog for some time now and I am duly impressed that, amidst your busy schedule, you have been finding time, and money, to write a post every now and then. It has been several weeks already and you haven't neglected it, a far cry from your first attempt at blogging where you never wrote a post at all.
With this, I want to point to you some concerns of mine regarding your entries. Yes, the inclusion of biblical passages at the end of each post is a nice touch, as it is your own pathetic way of encapsulating your experiences and relating it to the Bible. Your intention of including these passages ("So that people who read my blog can also read a portion of the Bible and thus may not be left in the dark") is "admirable" or, should I say, amusing.
But unfortunately, that is the only positive thing I can say about your blog. This is because your entries are but sordid attempts to document your life. Though there is nothing wrong in pursuing such an endeavor, I believe this goal is too limited, too narcissistic, too ordinary, too "not you".
As I remember, you have had high hopes for this blog. When you were in college, your overall (and downright corny) ambition was: to speak and write for those who could not. In writing this blog, you envisioned to write those topics which you were passionate about but which others never cared to write.
Where are these topics now, Paolo? Do I see them in your blog? I'm afraid not because you were busy writing about your stupid work, writing about mundane things which do not reflect anything at all about you.
I ask you now. Have you written anything about something or someone you truly care about? Have you written something about your family? About your mother and father and the love story they share? About your sisters and how deeply you care about them? About your brothers and how proud you are of what they can do and how you regret deeply that you were not a very good kuya? About your extended families, your lolas and lolos, your cousins, your titos and titas, each and every one of them who has a testimony about life that only you are interested to write? Have you ever written about your lovelife, or the people you've met in high school, college, and now, at work? Have you written about your convictions in life, your interests, your stance on issues, your view of religion, of Christianity, of politics, of your dreams and ambitions, of your insecurities and frustrations, of your personality and of other people's stories, of your hopes and your joys? About God?
I am asking you this because I want to remind you. Your blog must not simply be an avenue to talk about your everyday happenings, or of the latest products, movies, books, whatever. It is supposed to be more than that. It is where you bare your soul to the world.
Please do not disappoint me. Before you started this blog of yours, you knew that this is what you want to happen. Now, it's time to set the record straight.
Sincerely,
Paolo Ray E. Bataller
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