I wanna talk about me, wanna talk about "I"...

I'm writing this post for pretty much one reason:  To see what I sound like at 3 a.m. in the morning.  (I love obvious redundancy in writing.  It's one of the lost arts in my opinion.)

I wish so bad I could remember where I heard this, or read this, or what; but, I learned that someone does not read past the first sentence of a blog post, magazine article, etc. if it contains the pronoun "I" at all.  Well, I guess that person--if he stumbled on my blog--didn't make it this far and has moved on to something else since I made sure to totally put that resolve to the test.  Obviously, he shared that with a message to what he was saying.  Anything produced where "I" is at the forefront, is likely to lose the audience immediately, because the audience doesn't want to know that "I," the author, is the more important thing to me.  Instead it's "you," the audience, that the audience wants to know is the most important thing to me.  At least that's what I feel this individual's point was that he was trying to get across.

On the one hand it seems a little narrow-mindedly self-centered, but in the big picture, it actually makes more sense that it is that way.

And to kinda point the finger at myself, I have always noticed that I talk about me a LOT in my blog posts.  Most of my posts are centered around me instead of telling about the cool stuff that other people have done that just totally blew me away.  I kinda waste a lot of time and energy talking about the cool things that I've experienced, I've accomplished, I've observed, I've learned...hey!...See, there I go doing it again!

I really, really, want to target my weaknesses just as if I'm back at the range like I used to do in the army--looking down the barrel of a rifle through the sights at the paper target 30m away.  And the one that I wanna kill so badly first:  This being wrapped up with...me!  This silent preoccupation with my well-being that is even admittedly masked with false modesty and a false preference of others over myself; I just want it go away for good never again to come back and intrude on my efforts of truly making my life about everyone else in it.

But how do I do that?  Mmm.  Going back to my original evidence of this effort--and possibly one of the lesser-significant evidences--trying to minimize the "I" in my blog posts.  How do I do it?  Or is it even really that important?  Do I have too much "I" in my blog posts?  How about in my life?

Oop!  Well it's just about to be 4:00 and I specifically wanted to know what I sounded like at 3 a.m. in the morning.