23 November 2010
Blogging and anonymity.
I’ve realized that if people know who I am, I’m a lot shyer about what I want to share. That really shouldn’t matter, should it? I should just “be me” and let my hair hang down and all, right?
There’s a lot of things I’d like to be blogging about. But then I think of the various types and varieties of people who could stumble upon and read it and I kind of want to blush, close my shades, and put on an extra sweater. And it’s not like I’d be blogging about anything that I wouldn’t want to discuss with anyone face to face.. I guess I’m just worried about peoples perceptions of me. I mean, maybe there are some things I wouldn’t want potential future people I may work with to know. Maybe? I really don’t know. I’ve always been of the quieter, less-is-more nature. The “shy one” that never had much to add to group settings. Boring, mundane, lame, and definitely not the life of any party.
But every once in a while, I stumble across a blogger who is honest, transparent, and doesn’t care what other people think of them. And it’s refreshing. It feels like they’re “truly living” rather than hiding behind some vague gauzy curtain. It’s bright and clear. And usually lovely. Am I lame to find other people’s day to day lives exciting?
“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are “patches of Godlight” in the woods of our experience.” – C.S. Lewis
Well, I’ll continue to struggle with what I feel I can blog about.. I talk like this blog will be around for a while. Haha. Right, sure.
by Hers
