There is such freedom in cyberspace. Is it freedom to create myself anew, or to be the person I truly am? Aaah, that’s the question. I’ve asked it before, but I haven’t got the answer. Or rather, I believe the answer is that this is the true me, this is my way of letting that version of me have a life of her own.
I say what I’m thinking, I explore and expand my mind, I ride the waves of thought and feeling. I can say things I would never say to flesh and blood people, because this is the world of words and ideas and nothing else matters. I have time to think about and shape my answers, my thoughts, the things I want to say. And the pattern grows and expands. I’m not only running in the same old tracks, strange new doors have opened and I have started to explore, the space of my mind is opening up and I pass through with no thread to lead me back to the outside world, I may lose myself forever in these vaults, but it doesn’t matter. I laugh, I think, I gossip, I flirt, I meet new people, I grow.
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- 11 Feb. 2008 @ 07:26:12
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so what's stopping us to be these people outsite as well?
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- 11 Feb. 2008 @ 07:56:03
Lots of things actually. Well, in my case. Though it's not a case of not being myself out there in the big bad world. It's more, I guess, the topics I cover on here are sometimes slightly more personal. To give just one example, in real world, I'd never moan about my wife, off farm, to friends or family. On here, I can. Nobody cares. And I don't feel I've been disloyal. James.
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husbandorcat
- 11 Feb. 2008 @ 18:36:30
The initial raison d'etre for this blog, as you can tell from the title, was to give me a safe place to talk about the problems in my marriage. If it hadn't been for that, I don't suppose I would ever have considered it.
Little did I suspect where it would lead
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this is interesting. So in real life too, do you feel more open with people you do not know?
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CassandraofTroy
- 17 Feb. 2008 @ 19:25:06
I think this was directed at James.
But I'll answer it anyway.
and the answer is yes, because they have no preconceptions about me, and I can be who I am, and not have to worry about living up to expectations.
But I don't often meet new people. So to be myself, without all that baggage, I have to come here. -
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husbandorcat
- 11 Feb. 2008 @ 18:43:22
for me, it's because writing is easier than talking to people you don't know -or even people you do know.
If I get tongue tied, nobody needs to know about it, because they're not expecting me to respond to what they say on the spot.
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this is a great blog. This is probably why most of us do it
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husbandorcat
- 11 Feb. 2008 @ 18:39:48
Thanks
I'm always surprised at what gets a reaction and what doesn't.
This was just something I scribbled down off the top of my head this morning just to have something to post. -
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Nicely expressed. Where blogging's concerned I hold similar views. It's a version of me that's mine own. And long may it last, say I. James.