Sunday, July 06, 2003
First official entry.
First entries always make me feel like I ought to write something of significant importance in them. Alas, if that were the case, I'd be a literary genius by now. Seeing that I've not yet achieved that status nor do I reckon I'll ever reach it, let's just deal with the fact that if anyone wants to read anything of grave magnitude, please feel free to proceed to a bloody news website like CNN or some other source of 'entertainment'. The reason for the word 'entertainment' is that some people - poor, deprived souls, in fact - actually enjoy reading about tragedies as a form of entertainment. They find it 'exciting' to read about the current war that's taking place in some other region far away, as if it were a movie or historical war novel. Hrm, what's that word for it..ah. Sadists. Yes, I believe that's the word. Though on second thoughts, it's probably too harsh a labelling for those I'm talking about. But, you get what I mean. Sad to say, I know people like that - people that treat such things of grim importance with the frivolity that comes with ignorance. Oh I'm not trying to imply that I'm not ignorant in the affairs of the world, because I am. Do not assume that just because I share my 'critiques' here, that I think of myself as above everyone else in terms of what I'm critiquing them about. I'm just as ignorant as the average teenager. Well, except maybe for the fact that I strive not to be so. However, striving to be something and achieving it are two fundamentally different concepts.
Decided to get a new bloggie apart from my old ujournal because it was stumbled upon by some who weren't meant to read it. To make things short - I lost the privacy and anonymity that one needs at times when it comes to talking, or rather, writing about personal things. I started to write about trivial matters that I didn't even care about just because I couldn't broach my private problems in front of the people that I didn't want reading my journal. It was my rant journal. I reckon the only place where one can't be held accountable for one's thoughts is the internet. Or rather - the typical online journal or blog. It's the anonymity that keeps one from feeling restricted in terms of ideas, and it's through that same sense of anonymity that one gets the courage to say things which one probably can't say in the real world. The narrow-minded, cynical world that's full of double standards - something one just cannot try to comprehend, and can only try to deal with as a part of life. So, I set this up for the main purpose of making it my more or less public journal for those of you that want in on my public life, while my more private entries might be found as 'friends only' entries in my old uj. Till then.
Shu at 2:07 PM
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