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Do not think I do not know. It even crosses my eyes. And, yes, this is about... ME, again.
I have been considering what I write, my comments on other blogs, and how I lead my life. Too many "me", "I", and even as I try to switch things up "we" are used. If it were just a vocabulary issue, that could be fixed. But it is not. I am self-centered. Not that this is a surprise. I will yield that this blog is simply about my life so there has got to be a little room for that. However, other people's blogs are NOT about my life, and happily. Blogging would be dead if so. Even if it was all about everyone's own little life, blogging would be dead.
To this end, I am beginning an effort to not include me, I, or we in my comment posts both as words referring to me (where at all reasonable, which is most of the time), and regarding the principle. My life, my past, my hopes, my future... these are for here, if too I should expand quite a bit beyond me. Then again, I am not writing for the general public. This really is a diary. It is written just to get it out of my mind, in part because I have so few people to discuss these things with. Well, actually, I have no one. And, I want these thoughts and such to go away just as much as anybody, so I put them here. I do not read these later. Nothing I write is of any interest other than getting it out of my head. I guess I am stuck with me, on this page.
However, on your blogs, I need to begin cutting myself out and just do what the rest do, quip, agree, disagree, or whatever, in 5 words or less it seems. That will be a challenge. I have foreseen this a bit, and there are other challenges as well. The first is not analyzing the author. That is very easy to do from this chair and it is as welcome as "me". The second is not to simply emotionalize what the author writes. It is a natural and easy thing to do and the wrong thing to do. I think the final consideration is to not grandstand, that is, in simply another way, simply about me again. What does that leave? I do not know, precisely, though it means I ought not to respond most of the time. I have suggested this before and I will go through the phases again, maybe each time cutting a little more "me" out and adding less and less in general as well. Eventually, perhaps, I will become a wise man (albeit through the loophole that even a man who speaks, or writes, little may be considered wise).
Well, here goes nothing. Eh? Maybe the warp drive will work, this time. If so, you will not see "me" soon except on this planet, far far away if not a long time ago. Yeah, I get it, sometimes.
Do what you want, but there has been very little about your comments on my blog that I would want to see differently.
ReplyDeleteWithout comments, I could just as well be hollering into a hollow tube. Like 'em or hate 'em, at least with comments I know I'm not doing that.
I miss k. She always commented about everything I did and wrote about.
Well, you are a little different, in this regard, D.C. You and several others are, well, friends, advisers, peers. Some blogs are like the long time neighbors house. I know where the key is, where the beer is, and how much I can take without some kind of repayment or when I should add some data or at least doing a little work (or research) to add to the blog mind ooze goo. You know who you are. I know I am generally welcome even should I be an annoyance from time to time (and I know when to shoo for a bit too).
ReplyDeleteThis is mostly about blogs where I have no real relationship with the host or hostess. And more, the corporate blogs.
That might make more sense to you.
Well, ok, now that I've read your response to DC I feel a little better. Why? Because I would miss 'you' at my place. I want you to come by and be comfortable... and that means being 'you'.
ReplyDeleteI believe, at least I hope, that I am one of the long-time neighbors.
I'll try to have fresh cookies next time you visit *g*
(I miss k, too. I'm really really worried.)
Oh, hey, I still have a bottle of cyber beer from the other day from your place. Can I have it or should I return it. Course you are one of the... lucky? Ha! Aren't we the bunch of codependents though? *laughs*
ReplyDeleteK always confused and confounded me, but without harm. I miss her too. Does anyone have more contact info? No, don't share. Just call and check. Hmmm, if not, maybe someone who used to frequent her blog has it. It would simply be good to check on her. Mourn, and yes cry, but know. Or feel some security that she has merely lapsed a bit.
I was not quite close enough to intrude. But as a man of action, if impossibly sometimes, that is what I suggest. Go, seek, learn, and then teach.
*beer does that to me, but sometimes I do so without too, you know... *sigh* two beers as I was contemplating this last reply going down the lists*
Nancy France used to have her phone number, but last time she tried it didn't work anymore.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to k being gravely ill, they're in dire financial straits, so I'm not too surprised they let their phone service lapse. I don't know of anyone who has another way to contact her.
She or they might have merely been placed in "medical custody", too, as my grandpa put it. I am sure if there was a way to find out, having contact, letters, and such, would be good. So complicated these days, unless you are family.
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