: Re: Do I need to convey a moral for each of my blog posts? I'm thinking of starting a blog. I'm confused about whether giving a moral in each blog post is a good idea or not. Will it sound

@Shanna875

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You can try to add a "what I learned" sentence to the end of your blog posts, when there is something interesting to say, if your aim is to give "morals" to the readers.

But overall, no: you don't need to convey a moral.

Clearly stated morals are actually fine for a small subset of written media (e.g. fables or religious parables). In both cases the audience is supposed to be in a certain state of mind.

Morals aim to teach you about something, but for them to succeed you need to:

be recognized as an acceptable teacher
find someone willing to learn

A blog where you talk about your daily experiences it's not the best context for this. Sure, you are the most expert person about your daily life, but it's not something you can teach. There's a fine line between drawing conclusion and being arrogant.

For example, it's perfectly fine to end a post with:

... in the end, this whole experience taught me to pay my bills on time, everytime.

but it's kind of different to force it in this way:

... So, a good man always pays the bills on time.

It seems harmless, but it can be perceived as arrogant. You'd be generalizing from your own experience to something virtually every man should do, regardless of the situation. This could go pretty wrong pretty fast.

If your daily experiences are interesting, and if there is a lesson to be learned, readers will get that by themselves - as Ron Mike already mentioned.

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