Dear Reader
Why do you read this anyway? I mean, honestly.
Do you read this because you're actually interested in me, as a person, interested in how I am, what I'm feeling, what I'm thinking, what goes on in my head, whether I'm OK, whether I'm in pain, or what?
Or are you reading in the hopes of catching gossip on what's going on in the band? Or maybe in the hope or terror that I'll write what I really feel about *you*?
Or are you just some bored office worker, rubbernecking at the catastrophe ballet?
I mean, honestly, because I don't know.
Do you read this because you're actually interested in me, as a person, interested in how I am, what I'm feeling, what I'm thinking, what goes on in my head, whether I'm OK, whether I'm in pain, or what?
Or are you reading in the hopes of catching gossip on what's going on in the band? Or maybe in the hope or terror that I'll write what I really feel about *you*?
Or are you just some bored office worker, rubbernecking at the catastrophe ballet?
I mean, honestly, because I don't know.
posted by Masonic Boom | 7:04 pm
10 Comments:
Is that an honest "honestly", or an exasperated one? You write funny or interesting things, which sets me up to hope all's going well with you. B.O.W. though I am, if I wanted to rubberneck at a catastrophe ballet I'd have been following the polls in the DRC.
I genuinely care (for reference).
Bored office worker. Yet I keep coming back for more, because I find what you have to say about the world rather interesting.
Asking why people read is like asking why you blog. What do you hope readers are thinking, who are you writing for? I think the answers to both are a mixture of many different impulses.
There just seem to be an increasing number of people who seem to use reading my blog as a substitute for actually *talking* with me.
Maybe this is my own fault, as I use mine own blog as a sounding board to get my thoughts down and ordered before I actually bring something to the table for discussion.
But I fear it's making my increasing sense of isolation worse.
Okay, I know I'm slightly guilty of that, but if you drop a bombshell on your blog when I'm not able to talk to you (both of us at work, one of us not in the country) then I'm going to use that forum to respond. I know you blog as a way of getting your feelings down, but when you write something that concerns one of your known readers it is difficult to just sit there and go 'oh, okay then, I'll wait until I next see Kate to bring this up.' I'm sure you would do the same if I mentioned something that concerned you on my blog. No? Yes? I don't want you to feel isolated and I'm sorry that you do, but I also view blog chat/ email as a way of communicating with your friends on a more regular basis than you are able to meet. It's EXTRA communication, not a substitute for it.
people used to do that to me all the time. they'd be getting their fix of me off my writing, so they didn't need to see me. i'd be getting jack shit off them though, and the friendship would fade. they'd still feel like they were in it though. eventually i stopped keeping journals. you want a hit of me? come to the source then, baby.
We communicate by semaphore
No Language
We've got flags
Of our own
I look at your blog because you are one of the more interesting posters on ILX, so I hope you will say interesting things. However, you are also one of the more indiscrete (or indiscreet, which?) ILX posters, so I approach your blog with a similarly voyeuristic air.
I read you from time to time because you're one of the people who creates, rather than someone who constantly talks about doing stuff and doesn't do anything. (like me) You're very articulate and opinionated, which I find refreshing.
I met you in real life once (we have a mutual friend) and you were rather rude to me, but if I met the younger me now, I'd probably be rude to me as well.
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