A blog, as a base of input as well as a means to output

I guess you can easily regard a blog as an output tool, but a blog is useful also as an input tool.

I've felt this through interaction in my Japanese blog.

I post daily records several times a week.
These records are events I encounter daily and sometimes views of these events.
My views, along with my interests, reflects my circumstances I'm in.
Since I began my blogs, my interests have been life as an adult on the autism spectrum, learning English and other foreign languages as a person with extreme shyness and very odd interests, and Christianity viewed from mentally distressed with my autistic characteristics.

I register blog communities corresponding to these interests, views other blogs with close interests to mine, and once in a while interact with some of the writers.

Like my blogs, most of blogs are just a diary, but still, they are encouraging and also informative to me in that I can see they are at least as fine as to write a blog, and bearing daily struggles in their daily lives. Sometimes, I know through these blogs news and events related to my interests.


I view a blog as an input tool in another way.
I'm aware that after all the person who wants to read my blog the most is myself some other time.
Of course, myself in the past can't see my future post, so I see my past blog post, and I find them unexpectedly encouraging and informative.
For example I wrote an article the annual registration for a service for citizen with disability in the past, and when I have to the same registration another year, the information I wrote is really just for me.

A blog as an input tool, in this way is contributing to the stability of my mental health and my self esteem.