The Word

A few years ago, there was this strange word that seemed to suddenly appear everywhere; newspapers, websites, billboards, ad hoardings, every place that your eye wandered upon. Trying to make out any meaning out of it was of no avail. It was such a strange word that seemed to elude even the Cambridge Dictionary (the online dictionary still doesn't not have an entry for it. Try it yourself). A friend then explained to me that the word was a contraction of "web log". When I said it couldn't be found in my dictionary, she just remarked my dictionary probably belonged to the Iron Age. So, after all these years, I finally decided to publish my own blog. Not because I wanted to write, but because I felt too lonely to be left out of the bandwagon. But one thing I still can't understand is if a blog's supposed to be a personal journal, why make it public? But then again, what ever has been personal for that matter!