Being Authentic

Being authentic is what makes you, you, and it makes me, me. But in the world today of the Internet, it is very difficult to know who is who. I am very new to this thing call blogging, but it is definitely a challenge that I have accepted. It takes time to blog. It is not about sitting in front of your computer and typing whatever that comes to your mind. It is more than wasting your time and possibly other's time. It is a wonderful tool if used correctly.

I am about to say something that may turn some of you off. It may cause some of you to never visit my blog ever again. But then again, I do not care. On the other hand, it may encourage you to continue visiting my blog and hopefully share your views with me and others. I am using this blog to share with you my views about architecture and design in general. Being authentic is part and parcel to being an architect with character, and that I have.

I have learned that not all blogs are written by the owners of companies or businesses that uses blogs to promote their companies and/or themselves. There is a thing or person called "ghostbloggers". You mean to say that there are some blogs out there that are not written by humans, but ghosts? Well, not quite. There are blogs written by people who are not actually the owner of the company and / or person that they are blogging about.

In other words, ghostbloggers are people who get paid to write on behalf of a company and/or individual. The readers of such blogs would think that the the owner of the company or the real person the blog is about is writing, when in fact, it is someone else who is writing.

If a CEO's name is on something written by someone else and he didn't even have anything to do with it, basically, that's outright lying, isn't?

I told you that some of you wouldn't like what I had to say. Now, there. I said it. Take it of let it alone.

Rest assured, that this blog and every blog that I put my name on, it is 100% me, Nathaniel Rhine. I do not want to be anyone else. I do not know how to be anyone else. For 43 years of my existence, I only know how to be me. So why would I want to become someone else or have someone else become me?

Be true to yourself and be authentic.