Blogging has been a generally positive thing in my life, especially as a writer.
But sometimes I think it’s just a damnable and ridiculous way to relate to people. I mean, really. Think about it.
Why else do we resort to memes?
I want to look in your eyes; I want to touch your hands. What are you really thinking/feeling? Dammit.
August 5, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Is this a meme?
Certainly this is an indictment of my external, actual, daily life, but there’s often more honesty in blog thoughts. (Memes aside.)
It’s wonderful to think of an in-person conversation in which another would ask, and want to know, “What are you really thinking/feeling?” Add looking at eyes and touching of hands — and being responsive to these things one might say honestly.
Do people act or speak as such, earnestly, in person? It seems safe here, but I can’t imagine it otherwise.
August 5, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Jean, if you had to relate to all your weblogging friends in the ideal manner you speak of… you wouldn’t have time for anything else, would you? ::chuckle::
I think weblogging simply expands the arena of friendships possible in your life. You and I have never met, for instance, and yet I think we feel that familiar warmth towards each other of people who have been friends a long time. That’s as near to magic as technology can accomplish, pace Arthur Clarke.
August 5, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Oh well, ADT & Lloyd, you are both right of course. In face-to face-life, we’re probably just as selectively “real” and “honest”as we are online. Which is to say, sometimes we are, and sometimes we aren’t, to various degrees.
But I do feel warmly towards you both. ; )
I just had one of those impulsive moments… you know…
Jean