the question

The main thing here is that I'd like to know how this thing works - for YOU, in the first place... and then, for myself... guess everyone their version; I'm a beginner, and what I feel is a tickling little thrill, might be that of the beginner, the newcomer, the unexperienced explorer who gets excited setting foot on the Mount Everest - never mind its a daily walk for the sherpas...

So, the question is:

Is it possible not to get obsessed with your blog, once you started and et a taste for it? Don't you start walking around in the world thinking of what would be a good thing to put down on here, or how to put something so it renders some of what you think or feel or discover? 

Doesn't it produce the Japanese tourist effect, which travels with its camera and harldy sees first-hand reality any more, more interested in taking the compulsory snapshot of it - with him/herself, in group or alone, in front of the thing... with the difference perhaps that the Japanese tourist follows a guide and goes to see the predefined must in each place (from Big Ben to the Eiffel Tower), while a blogger (hopefully) has an eye for uncanonical places, moments, and things, to which s/he is the only one - or at least the first - to attribute interest...

My question is a genuine question, not a rhetorical one, folks of the Blogoshpere, tell me how you live it! I'm really interested!