(Speculations for the moment, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.)
Beautiful Music Friend recently started a blog, which I follow, and probably gave the URL to one of our group. Who followed me back here. And is right now furiously reading the archives.
Well, what can I say?
Should I stop? Should I keep going? Should I do like BB and move somewhere else?
I don't know.
This blog began as an anonymous place to rant and rave, where I could write without being judged, a place to empty my thoughts and say what was on my mind without being afraid of hurting feelings.
Since then, it's become, or at least I like to think so, a place where I write and I know someone reads, several someones, to whom I have become attached. I look forward to reading comments in the morning and throughout the day, I enjoy reading different blogs about different lives and seeing them cross and mix sometimes, I enjoy putting in my two cents sometimes.
But it's still a very private place, a place I don't mind sharing with no-longer-strangers, because there is safety in anonymity, but that I don't necessarily want friends to read.
It's not that I want to hide things from them, it's that I see them everyday and have a different (although very important to me) relationship with them than with the words I write and the people who read those words.
We shall see what happens.
Beautiful Music Friend recently started a blog, which I follow, and probably gave the URL to one of our group. Who followed me back here. And is right now furiously reading the archives.
Well, what can I say?
Should I stop? Should I keep going? Should I do like BB and move somewhere else?
I don't know.
This blog began as an anonymous place to rant and rave, where I could write without being judged, a place to empty my thoughts and say what was on my mind without being afraid of hurting feelings.
Since then, it's become, or at least I like to think so, a place where I write and I know someone reads, several someones, to whom I have become attached. I look forward to reading comments in the morning and throughout the day, I enjoy reading different blogs about different lives and seeing them cross and mix sometimes, I enjoy putting in my two cents sometimes.
But it's still a very private place, a place I don't mind sharing with no-longer-strangers, because there is safety in anonymity, but that I don't necessarily want friends to read.
It's not that I want to hide things from them, it's that I see them everyday and have a different (although very important to me) relationship with them than with the words I write and the people who read those words.
We shall see what happens.
8 comments:
Hey L'Archiduchesse, please don't desert us. I for one would be really upset. I can understand how you feel because I sometimes don't say things because I know someone would be upset or require an explanation. If you do mpve off into different realms please do let me know. I'd be really upset if you just disappeared without trace.
Ouch! I'd like to say something like, if she's your friend she'll realise that you never really know what's in anyone's head. But if it was me I'd probably be hiring an evil genius (probably Babes) to invent something that would bring down the internet on a global scale. Just in case.
I took a decision early on that if anyone took offence at my musings it was their problem not mine. Hopefully I never upset anyone intentionally so my conscience is clear - as your approach has always made clear yours is. Having said that, my reason for starting the blog was slightly different.
Whatever your decision I am sure it will work out for the best.
Take care (in more ways than one!)
oops. I'm really, really sorry :-((((
BMF
Eh, keep going. There is no real anonymity on the internet, and bloggers have to keep that in mind when they write. You have interesting things to say, whether your identity is known or not.
It would be a pity to lose you. I do understand as there are several people who know me who read my blog and it sometimes makes me uneasy. but I do hope you keep going.
Well, in so many ways there is no private anymore. Posting anything on the 'net is the basically stating, "here I am".
You've been vague enough and general enough I don't think many secrets have been revealed.
Ultimately, most concerns about statements and comments are motes in the wind.
Besides, writing on the pages of a diary is so boring and old fashioned!
Thank you, everyone. Good thing this isn't like the Great Diary Discovery of '01. Goodness gracious, I blush to think of the inanities I wrote down when I did keep a diary. (Not that what I have to say is any less inane, but at least there aren't hearts everywhere.)
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