aight, i'm sorry i aired some dirty laundry on here, but i was venting and i had to do it .. sorry if anybody for any reason got offended.
*****
now that THAT disclaimer is over and done with, can i just share a thought or two about blogging.
have you realized how a lot of bloggers-addict tend to use this blogging hobby of theirs to whine, complain, and vent about their lives? everytime something bad happens, everytime something messes up with the way they view their lives, it gets blogged .. and when there is something good to write about, somehow that gets overlooked and skipped (and i'm not talking about joyous, significant, life-changing events like getting married or moving into a new house, or graduating, coz those are special happy occasions), i'm talking about the simple, honest-to-goodness moments of happiness... NONE! there is ALWAYS something to complain about, something to improve on, something to bitch/piss about, and it's pretty fucking sad!
the concept is eeriely similar to our faith, at least in my view of what religion and faith is.. people talk to God when they're in trouble, they complain to God or refer to their holy books when they need help. very rarely do i see or hear people talk to God or refer to the holy book when they are simply, normally, happy (but now we get to the point where we need to bring in the term "simple happiness", but let's use the non-life-changing-happiness-event and pretend that every human being on this earth IS capable of simple happiness and CAN indeed smile at the simplest of things)... now, i think it's interesting how a lot of people have turned to these blogs and simply pour out their hearts, to complain and contemplate, and to use the blogs as a sounding-board of some sort .. in place of God or the reference to a holy book. and for us atheists or agnostics who don't believe in one holy book, or simply just don't believe in a higher power altogether - do you notice how the blogging activity can be considered as "talking to God" (of the internet board obviously, but you are still somewhat enslaved by it, writing in daily or weekly, or however often you visit the blog - and this extends to not only blogs but also forum boards because there are atheists and agnostics out there who are afraid to start blogs but aren't afraid to frequent discussion boards and forums and vent out there instead)
i'm not saying that it's a direct analogy per say .. in fact i could totally be wrong and there ARE bloggers out there who DO write honest-to-goodness simple happy facts about their lives, but i don't read blogs that are happy - i only read whiners and complainers coz those make better candidates to compare my own pathetic and sad life to ...
but as i was getting my point across (or i think i am, at least i'm sorta kinda going in some direction)...
blogging is like praying ..
-you do it pretty much the same time every day or every week you update the blog (for the most part)
-you whine and complain and vent, and hope that somehow some way, that all the whinings and venting can make you feel better
-there is centralized server thing that keeps track of all the venting bloggers do and if you have one of those commenting things on your blog, people reading can write back to you and you get feedback (God does it in freakish ways sometimes to answer to your prayers, but you see the pattern here?)
-bloggers very rarely blog when they are happy
pretty interesting stuff huh?
of course none of the things i've said are my own expressed opinions only
i just view things in a really skewered sorta way
but i think the most humbling thing about this is this:
that no matter what religion you are, or if you aren't religious, or if you are semi-religious, blogging makes you feel like you are talking to something/someone that matters (or you wouldn't be blogging) and even though that something or someone doesn't say anything back to you, you do it anyway because it makes you feel better in a scary, pathetic, internet kinda way, and that dependency to vent, even tho to an inanimate object, is just something all humans do.
we need something to depend on, to vent to, to complain to, to move along in this tiny, crappy world that we live in.
we just do it in different ways..
......... ok, NOW you can shoot me for talking garbage =)
*****
now that THAT disclaimer is over and done with, can i just share a thought or two about blogging.
have you realized how a lot of bloggers-addict tend to use this blogging hobby of theirs to whine, complain, and vent about their lives? everytime something bad happens, everytime something messes up with the way they view their lives, it gets blogged .. and when there is something good to write about, somehow that gets overlooked and skipped (and i'm not talking about joyous, significant, life-changing events like getting married or moving into a new house, or graduating, coz those are special happy occasions), i'm talking about the simple, honest-to-goodness moments of happiness... NONE! there is ALWAYS something to complain about, something to improve on, something to bitch/piss about, and it's pretty fucking sad!
the concept is eeriely similar to our faith, at least in my view of what religion and faith is.. people talk to God when they're in trouble, they complain to God or refer to their holy books when they need help. very rarely do i see or hear people talk to God or refer to the holy book when they are simply, normally, happy (but now we get to the point where we need to bring in the term "simple happiness", but let's use the non-life-changing-happiness-event and pretend that every human being on this earth IS capable of simple happiness and CAN indeed smile at the simplest of things)... now, i think it's interesting how a lot of people have turned to these blogs and simply pour out their hearts, to complain and contemplate, and to use the blogs as a sounding-board of some sort .. in place of God or the reference to a holy book. and for us atheists or agnostics who don't believe in one holy book, or simply just don't believe in a higher power altogether - do you notice how the blogging activity can be considered as "talking to God" (of the internet board obviously, but you are still somewhat enslaved by it, writing in daily or weekly, or however often you visit the blog - and this extends to not only blogs but also forum boards because there are atheists and agnostics out there who are afraid to start blogs but aren't afraid to frequent discussion boards and forums and vent out there instead)
i'm not saying that it's a direct analogy per say .. in fact i could totally be wrong and there ARE bloggers out there who DO write honest-to-goodness simple happy facts about their lives, but i don't read blogs that are happy - i only read whiners and complainers coz those make better candidates to compare my own pathetic and sad life to ...
but as i was getting my point across (or i think i am, at least i'm sorta kinda going in some direction)...
blogging is like praying ..
-you do it pretty much the same time every day or every week you update the blog (for the most part)
-you whine and complain and vent, and hope that somehow some way, that all the whinings and venting can make you feel better
-there is centralized server thing that keeps track of all the venting bloggers do and if you have one of those commenting things on your blog, people reading can write back to you and you get feedback (God does it in freakish ways sometimes to answer to your prayers, but you see the pattern here?)
-bloggers very rarely blog when they are happy
pretty interesting stuff huh?
of course none of the things i've said are my own expressed opinions only
i just view things in a really skewered sorta way
but i think the most humbling thing about this is this:
that no matter what religion you are, or if you aren't religious, or if you are semi-religious, blogging makes you feel like you are talking to something/someone that matters (or you wouldn't be blogging) and even though that something or someone doesn't say anything back to you, you do it anyway because it makes you feel better in a scary, pathetic, internet kinda way, and that dependency to vent, even tho to an inanimate object, is just something all humans do.
we need something to depend on, to vent to, to complain to, to move along in this tiny, crappy world that we live in.
we just do it in different ways..
......... ok, NOW you can shoot me for talking garbage =)
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