It's so hard to be me - to be authentic in existentialism-speak - because I will be discriminated, judged, ostracised, hurt and ridiculed for who I really am.
And they call this the 21st century.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
New Beginnings
Perhaps setting up a new blog - especially on Blogspot - might be a little anachronistic in this microblogging/Twitter/social-network era, but I find that I express myself best on vast empty plots of digital white space. So here I am, blogging, yet again.
In a way, I'm doing this to hone up my writing skills. I love writing, and laziness has left those literary cogs to rust and seize in the past couple of years. But more importantly, I'm doing this to ventilate. Human beings - regardless of their command of language, or intelligence - have boundless amounts of mental energy that simply has to go somewhere. Keep it all in, and it manifests in unhealthy ways - acting out our frustrations, venting it on others, imposing our views on others and so on. Writing is an extremely healthy way of using up our mental energy, and committing it to a tangible form that can be shared with others - but of course, only if you're willing to!
There's so much I want to write about, but only so little I can write about. I can't blog in detail about my work. I can't blog about things that I don't want my parents to know. (Yes, my mom is no stranger to Facebook and Youtube.) I can't blog about things that would potentially hurt the people I love.
But, why a new blog? Some people create new blogs so that they can use a new URL, others create new ones so that they can clean off the uncomfortable past, and start off from a fresh slate, the way my ex used to do every now and then.
Me? I have a different reason.I'm going to blog purposefully this time round. And I have a manifesto:
1. This blog will be a documentary of the events that are significant to my life.
2. It will not focus on aimless rants.
3. Whenever I write in it, I will aim to improve my writing and skills.
4. In the process of penning out my thoughts for the scrutiny of myself and my readers, I will aim to be a better man.
5. And I will reserve the right to break any of the above rules, because it is, after all, my blog.
Smell ya later.
In a way, I'm doing this to hone up my writing skills. I love writing, and laziness has left those literary cogs to rust and seize in the past couple of years. But more importantly, I'm doing this to ventilate. Human beings - regardless of their command of language, or intelligence - have boundless amounts of mental energy that simply has to go somewhere. Keep it all in, and it manifests in unhealthy ways - acting out our frustrations, venting it on others, imposing our views on others and so on. Writing is an extremely healthy way of using up our mental energy, and committing it to a tangible form that can be shared with others - but of course, only if you're willing to!
There's so much I want to write about, but only so little I can write about. I can't blog in detail about my work. I can't blog about things that I don't want my parents to know. (Yes, my mom is no stranger to Facebook and Youtube.) I can't blog about things that would potentially hurt the people I love.
But, why a new blog? Some people create new blogs so that they can use a new URL, others create new ones so that they can clean off the uncomfortable past, and start off from a fresh slate, the way my ex used to do every now and then.
Me? I have a different reason.I'm going to blog purposefully this time round. And I have a manifesto:
1. This blog will be a documentary of the events that are significant to my life.
2. It will not focus on aimless rants.
3. Whenever I write in it, I will aim to improve my writing and skills.
4. In the process of penning out my thoughts for the scrutiny of myself and my readers, I will aim to be a better man.
5. And I will reserve the right to break any of the above rules, because it is, after all, my blog.
Smell ya later.
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