Saturday, August 21, 2004

anyone?

this weblog is a tiny little fragment of cyberspace that i get to call my own. to do what i want with it, to share with others. a couple of people sometimes read the posts; i know this 'cause they leave comments. that's fine. it's a kind of validation.

i saw this quote about a month ago: "sometimes the things you don't want to talk about are the things you need to talk about most."

true. very true. i'm not much of a talker in reality, but i thought this could be my space to vent, to talk, to get rid of some of the demons. but it's so much harder than i thought. i don't if there's some kind of boundary i'm not meant to overstep. my posts on here range from the everyday talking about films, to the emotional heartwrench that i try to hide up or just fail to accurately write about because i let myself get caught up in the emotion. i don't know if by writing about the things that eat away at me i might alienate people. or what if people i know read it? what then?

so what's the answer? start a new blog? an anonymous one?
say fuck it all and write about it on here, where i suppose i might at least get some answers?

can anyone tell me?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's quite a bit easier to vent via this medium as for the most part, you will receive objective responses...provided people read and respond of course...

Unless you are flagrant with the specifics behind what you write, the chances of anyone you know figuring out that it is you who is the author is quite slim...

I think getting caught up in the emotion as you write is the truest form of it all...there is no need to sit and be rational and think it out, because you really aren't offending or risking offending anyone...again you rely on people seeing this and responing, more often then not, they are casual acquaintences at best, you only know them by their responses and their posts...

And it would not be bothering you so much if you were not hesitant to talk about the situation, and also to hear what other people have to say in reply, so yeah, that quote is spot on...

The anonymity and objectivity offered by this form of communication is probably one of the most theraputic, as it is the most personal impersonal means available...

Get it off your chest, and if you don't like what some stranger has to say about it, then fuck it and move on...no harm done.

Col Mustard

Anonymous said...

Start an anonymous blog. Write honestly, or else why bother? What good is censoring yourself for your friends? Here's something intersting: say what you reallly feel, what you reallly mean. Disguise the names and other trivia, as Col. Mustard says, and go.

You'll find your wings that way.

shadowbox said...

Good writing that is honest and true is always hard. It's gut-wrenching to get it right and then there is the courage required to post it...putting it out there for everyone to see and (unfortunately among some) to judge. I'm taking a chance just my writing this comment, unsure of whether it will be welcomed or dismissed.

It is a good thing we do, when we take these chances.

Sometimes the consequences are not what we expect, but other times there are some nice surprises.

As for the matter of anonymity, if you're anything like me, it helps to first shed a layer of identity to help to get to the heart of the matter and to write down that one true thing.