So That Explains It

This doesn't quite fit my situation and I'm happy anyway. Nonetheless, I'll put it out there because it is fairly interesting.

From Psych Central...

Can Blogging Make You Happier?

According to researchers in Taiwan, the answer is “Yes.”

The researchers administered a survey to 596 college students. The students had blogging experience, and specifically with blogging for the purpose of keeping a personal journal.

The researchers found support for deeper self-disclosure from bloggers resulting in a range of better social connections. These included things such as a sense of greater social integration, which is how connected we feel to society and our own community of friends and others; an increase in social bonding (our tightly knit, intimate relationships); and social bridging — increasing our connectedness with people who might be from outside of our typical social network.

They hypothesized and found support from their data that when these kinds of social connections increase or grow deeper through blogging, a person will also feel a greater subjective sense of well-being or happiness.