I Was Just Thinking…

August 22, 2005

Blogging is a weird form of communication. (By the way, for those of you who don’t realize it, what you’re reading is a blog.) It’s mostly one-sided of course. In fact, the majority of the time I feel like I’m just talking to myself. What’s really interesting is that it’s like I’m talking to myself but I’m doing it in front of the world. Kind of like those scenes in the movies where a psychiatric patient is put in a room by themselves and then there’s a second room full of people standing behind one-way glass “observing” said psychiatric patient. Creepy, no? And what makes it creepier is to think that I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WATCHING ME AND I AM FREE TO LEAVE THIS ROOM AT ANY TIME AND YET I CHOOSE TO STAY.

Hmmm. But now I understand why my mother, when I explained a blog to her, crumpled up her face, furrowed her brow, made me think she wanted to curl up in the fetal position and said, “Oh Aim. Don’t you feel…exposed?” Funny, though—she thinks I’m a nut for blogging and yet it doesn’t stop her from reading the darn thing. Now that’s unconditional love people.

Category: Random

Comments

4 Responses to “I Was Just Thinking…”

  1. Sarah
    August 23rd, 2005 @ 10:27 am

    So, I just have to ask—do people from church read your blog? :)

  2. Maiju
    August 23rd, 2005 @ 2:52 pm

    Good way of putting it (blogging)! Sometimes I get lonely because you never get to know if anyone read what you wrote. Anyway I like keeping a blog!

  3. Amy
    August 25th, 2005 @ 2:57 pm

    Sarah…every once in a while someone tells me they’ve read my blog. Not sure if that means they read it regularly, but I suppose that’s entirely possible.

    Maiju…you’re right, it can be lonely can’t it? Always nice to get a comment though!

  4. Kurtis
    August 27th, 2005 @ 12:37 pm

    Do you find you ‘edit’ what you write knowing a big chunk of your relatives read the blog? :)

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