I went to my usual "news" sites this morning... at least this where I can get some interesting stories as to what is going on in the world without having to be bashed on the head with the "Fear and Consume" brainwashing waves coming from other news outlets. Well, I went to wired.com and saw this story about the 7 Basic Blog Posts . Brought to mind the un-originality and apparent deceit of the blogworld, and the thought that this is what made me stay off the internet for about a year. I just could not take the bullshit anymore. At first, I was addicted when I first started reading blogs about 3 years ago (I also was addicted to forums or websites that dealt with some type of "cause"... rights, truth, poverty, etc. Maybe another post about some of those pieces of crap later). I used to read the Craft type blogs. Oh my goodness, these women seemed so perfect and their lives so perfect and their photos so perfect. I tried to do the same, trying to achieve the perfect life. Of course, I fell short and ended up beating myself up at how imperfect I was. Women telling stories of how they had 3 young children, a new baby and stayed up all night making this cute little purse. And she was going to have 5 of them to sell to you tomorrow. And little gullible me was like "oh my god, what is wrong with me? I have 4 grown children and I can't do this". The only way I could achieve what they were doing would be to have beckoning assistants and nannies, be independently wealthy (or married to a rich man, who gave me a "busy business") and snort big lines of cocaine on a regular basis. I am not saying these folks are lying or even that they may be stretching the truth, but dayum are they cyborgs then??? This post is eventually what got me to thinking that maybe some of what folks were putting on their blogs might not actually be all-the-truth. I even dared to go so far as to wonder if these were real people at all and not actually representations of some corporate entity... I mean corporations masquerading as "regular folk" happened over here and they were stealing from these young women and bringing product to the consumer at unable-to-compete at prices.
Okay so this all led me to wonder and question "why have a blog" or be on the net at all? Was it supposed to be for showing off some latest hipster type item acquired at the local Goodwill? Be a "look what I can do and what I have and aren't you jealous" type situation? What I wished for was some realness and just a little truth and real connection. And here I am, still here, with my umpteenth blog... still searching after 5 or so years. In the end, it makes me sad. Where are all the real folk at? I would assume in their real homes, walking on their real streets, in real stores, doing real day to day living... but to assume, makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me". [hahahhaha... corny :) ]
Have a wonderfully REAL day!
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