11.22.2010

Me vs. the World

Gabe decided to delete his facebook a few months ago for various personal reasons, but recently he created a new one that is, if you don't know him personally, anonymous.  It's quite amusing if you do know him, because his whole profile screams GABE - as does his nom-de-plume.  All teasing aside, I am quite glad that he's started writing again.  I don't know if he started doing it because I causally dropped into a conversation that I missed reading his blogs, but he's writing and that's all I care about. [EDIT: he has since moved his blog, but the facebook is still there if you want to stop by.)
He makes three people whose blogs I read and particularly enjoy (not counting two of my all time favorite published authors, one Sarah Dessen and one Meg Cabot)- one is a girl I went to high school with who is just amazing and factastically talented and the other is also a girl I went to high school with who is a wonderful person and quite talented in her on right.  I wish I had as much time, effort, and energy to write as often or as cleaver as they do.....
I think blogs are really one of the best "inventions" as of late.  Sure they are mostly a place for people like me to complain about life and other such non-important things, but they are also a place for writers to practice their craft and possibly try new things.  They are a place for people with common interests - whether it's crafts, cooking, running, &c - to share their ideas, thoughts, and activities.  They are a way to for people to get what's on their mind out. They are a way to let the world know what you're thinking about and how you deal with things.  What's even more surprising is how often you can relate to something that someone else has posted.  It is a way for people not to feel alone (kind of what post secret does).  
It strange, as individual as most people want to be, or as independent as others want to appear, no one wants to feel alone.  Finding someone out there who has a similar worry to ours, or who likes something we do, or who posts a link of something you were sent not long ago to make you smile, and feel loved.  To feel that you are indeed not alone in this world....no matter how alone you feel.
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4 comments:

  1. SF-1January 22, 2011 at 2:18 PM

    Only I know I much I feel connected to this blog.... I don't feel alone when I read this.

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  2. mandaJanuary 29, 2011 at 10:45 AM

    and knowing that someone reads this gives me a sense of purpose

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  3. SF-1February 2, 2011 at 11:26 PM

    But the irony is the one whom we really want to read it... has no idea about the blog and will never read it.

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  4. mandaFebruary 17, 2011 at 2:29 AM

    ah, but thar is not always the case. My very clever friend Gabe found it. And while a part of me was scared that he would now know so many of the things I could never really say to his face (or more like didn't want to), a part if me was releaved. Now he knew; now I can face certain things from a different perspective.
    That said, I know exactly what you mean...

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