Blogging

I decided I don't like blogging anymore. Okay, so I don't like reading blogs anymore. I just can't take it anymore. You see, the world of modern technology/blogging brings us right into peoples homes. I get to know so many people, the good and the bad. I stumble upon people that I have never met, nor will I ever meet in this lifetime and my life is never the same having read their blogs. I find out stuff and get close to these people that I otherwise would have never known. I stumble upon them because of the trials they're going through and someone says go here and read this and I sit at my computer and cry like a baby because I am reading about someone's baby dying (I hope this doesn't come across to sound disrespectful in any way), or someone's spouse has cancer and is dying, etc. And I would have never known them or about their trials had I not come accross their blog. There seem to be so many of them and I think, wow! My life is so great. We don't have trials like that. Oh man, what if that were me, etc. I seriously start to wonder when it's my turn. I start to get paranoid that something is going to happen and I get a little overprotective of my children. Why can't I learn not to click on that link when I know that I'm just going to sit there and cry and get all depressed and my husband is going to refuse to come and read it, too because he doesn't want to get depressed??? Just don't click. That's all there is too it, right?
But, then I also learn how Heavenly Father works and how He loves us. I see the goodness in people come out. I see others mourn with those that mourn. I see how faith is strengthened, and peoples lives touched. Those that are going through the trials seem to have this strength that I wonder if I could have. I admire their courage and their faith. I hope that I would have the faith and the ability to accept God's will like they do. I come to love these people. Their lives because of their trials and my life having read about them is never the same. It makes me appreciate life with it's ups and downs. I see my children and my spouse differently and I want to hold them close and never let them go. It helps me remember what is really most important in life, my children, my husband, the gospel, my faith.
So, maybe I really don't dislike reading blogs. I guess modern technology can be a great thing. Heavenly Father can use it for wise purposes. Seriously though. Enough of these sad stories. Give me something I can laugh at for a change, will ya.
Sidenote: If it sounds like I was incoherently blubbering through all of this, I was. I had just gotten through reading a blog that someone was talking about in a comment I read on someone else's blog about a little boy that is clinging to life right now after drowning in the bathtub. I hope it doesn't sound insensitive or disrespectful in any way. You know, you hear about stuff like this in the news and you think, how sad. But when you actually read the up close and personal from the people actually going through these trials, it makes it more real. I have never lost someone so close to me like that, so I don't quite know the pain these people are going through. All I can do is imagine what it must be like to lose a child or a spouse. I really have learned a lot from these people as I read their blogs and am grateful to those who are willing to share such experiences with the world.