Blogging

Blogging is weird.  It's the strangest thing, if you think about it.  Sometimes you're reading about a person's life that you've never actually met, and yet you feel like you know them in a way because you're reading what is essentially an online diary of their lives.  How odd is that?  Totally intimate, yet anonymous at the same time.  I find myself sometimes interacting more with people I've never seen face-to-face than with people I've known for years.  Hell, between IM, forums, and blogs, I talk more with complete strangers than I do with certain members of my family, and most of them live right here in Charlotte.  I wonder if it's good or bad?  I wonder if that's just a sign of the times?  I wonder if that's just the new form of therapy, to relate your life to people you may never meet just because you may never meet them?  Safety in distance?  Can you call them friends if you've never so much as spoken on the phone?  I've had an email or two really brighten my day, and they've been from people clear across the country from me.  Encouraging words are encouraging words, I guess.  Everyone can use some positivity in their lives.

Am I overthinking this whole blogging mess?  It is very possible.

In any case, I'm not saying I do this of course, but if you ever feel like venting to online friends about sensitive material that you don't want the whole interwebs to hear about, I highly recommend getting a LiveJournal account.  The problem with that is sometimes you forget to post on your real blog because you're too busy laughing over each other's miserable lives.  (It's more theraputic than it sounds, actually.)  Not that I have a LiveJournal account for such nefarious purposes, of course, but hypothetically speaking, if I did, that's what I would use it for.  And if any of my real life friends who sometimes amuse themselves with my blog would like to hear me complain about the more personal stuff in my life, they could, theoretically speaking, get a dummy LJ account for strictly lurking and/or commenting purposes (it's free) and then shoot me an email letting me know their account name so that I could add them as a friend.  But that would only be if I actually had one.  *whistles innocently.*

Comments

[Nadi]

Okay, I'll bite. Send me an e-mail with wherever I am supposed to sign up. I have to do what I can to keep up with my loved ones and you are definitely on that very short list.

[april]

stop overthinking things...you know thinking is the leading killer of most people...and some aquatic creatures...

the way i see it...if you make any kind of connection w/ another living soul, does it really matter how it came about??

i leave you w/ that bit of wisdom...oh and about that thing i told you i was "stealing" from you...well i have a whole character built around it...;)

[Trickster]

Steal away, but be warned, truth is often stranger than fiction. Still, I can't wait to read it!! =D

[april]

i told you that i was working on my own tv show right?? i've even roped peter into collaborating w/ me...so you can pretty much imagine what the tone of it will be...*innocent grin*...i'll send you the "pitch"...but the tagline is..."there goes the gayborhood" ;)

[Stacy]

LJ is good, that is, if I had one. But I have a blog that's rated "G." LOL ;-)

Why do I fell like a member of the substitute posters by revealing my blog is a virgin?

I digress...

Many online people rock. I wish many of us could meet.

[Trickster]

I've wanted to go to Savannah ever since I read "The Book" (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.) I know that makes me a little lame, but I don't care. If I can ever afford it, I'm definately going to stop by the SCAD and harass you. ;-)