do people still read blogs?
or this is a trend of the early to mid 2000's that has since been replaced by facebook, twitter and texting? Have we reached our share limit? do we know enough about enough? Have we shared enough on all of these platforms to feel heard? to not feel quite so alone?
And as a blogger what do I want to share? My heart once sliced and splayed for all, now, after a year of recovery finds it's modesty. Thoughts and even occasional feelings come and when once they were jotted down, posted and documented, now they skip to passing by and forgetting. I think it's in part feeling that in the past I shared too much, gave too much, confessed too much - entries long since taken out of circulation from here - but the sharing too much of me here went hand in hand with my sharing too much of me, out there.for some time now, I've stopped that gravy train.
my heart, boarded up, has little to feel and even less to say.
But every once and a while there is a little crack. a hot love affair, an awkward first date, a sincere passing moment with a stranger. but instead of putting it up here, and out there, I tuck it away, and keep it close.
And that is how it goes. That is how it goes.
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The way I feel about blogging is that it's my way to connect in a way that's a middle ground between email and social working. I like having the anonymity of The Grassy Narrows (my blog) in order to connect with different people over things I may not be ready to discuss with some people.
I find I'm more myself in my writing and have more I want to get out than 140 characters will allow.
I'm with A Strange Boy... Blogging for me is all about the connections facilitated by anonymity. Or rather, in my case, what I see as a different persona: My online self. More strangers read my blog than do people I know "in real life", and it gives me a very welcome change of perspective on things.
I've always admired you for your openness on your blog, Mae... Perhaps because your willingness to share contrasts so sharply with my own protected way of writing. It's a breath of fresh air, to read so much emotion upon a simple computer screen. Having said that, I've been too tired to keep up with blogging very much this past year, and if *I'm* feeling like that I can only imagine what it might take out of you to write the way you do.
So yeah, tuck it away... That's more than okay. But if you do want to put it up here, I'd sure love to read it.
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