Next steps
Looking back at my year of LJ posts, I was thinking how sad I was for most of the year. Sad and/or crazy. While I am grateful that I had a platform on which to spew my frustrations and despair, and additionally grateful that not a lot of people read this blog anymore anyway, I am going to stop blogging here from now on. I have three very very simple reasons:
1. It's true that very few people read this blog, but it's still online and open for all the world to see. I remember before, how someone totally random will tell me they read my blog and my first reaction is always horror. Always. I know I could always just friends lock my posts but that still doesn't address simple reason 2, which is
2. I have to stop whining about my life online. It's just not productive. Fashionable, yes, but not productive. I think I may have gotten out of my post-breakup funk if I just stopped blogging. I am aware that I was addicted to the misery, to quote Billy Corgan, in love with my sadness. So now I try to convince my best friends that I'm a lot better these days and they don't buy it. I don't blog about good times, simply because I never feel like it. Also, I used to prefer LJ to Tumblr because it's more conducive to writing large amounts of texts, whereas Tumblr has more pics. Now, I'm thinking Tumblr has the right idea.
3. If I'm to write anything, it should be for the magazine, or the book or the PhD. I'm redirecting my energies.
Of course, I'm keeping the dance blog because the dance world needs the exposure. For wit and irreverence, I still have my Twitter account (though that's not very witty, I admit) and of course FB, where I'm forced to watch what I share given that a lot of my students and my boss
and my Dad are all on my friends list. I don't know if I want a Tumblr yet. We'll see where my energies take me.
I would also like to maintain our friendship offline as well. Let's get coffee :)
1. It's true that very few people read this blog, but it's still online and open for all the world to see. I remember before, how someone totally random will tell me they read my blog and my first reaction is always horror. Always. I know I could always just friends lock my posts but that still doesn't address simple reason 2, which is
2. I have to stop whining about my life online. It's just not productive. Fashionable, yes, but not productive. I think I may have gotten out of my post-breakup funk if I just stopped blogging. I am aware that I was addicted to the misery, to quote Billy Corgan, in love with my sadness. So now I try to convince my best friends that I'm a lot better these days and they don't buy it. I don't blog about good times, simply because I never feel like it. Also, I used to prefer LJ to Tumblr because it's more conducive to writing large amounts of texts, whereas Tumblr has more pics. Now, I'm thinking Tumblr has the right idea.
3. If I'm to write anything, it should be for the magazine, or the book or the PhD. I'm redirecting my energies.
Of course, I'm keeping the dance blog because the dance world needs the exposure. For wit and irreverence, I still have my Twitter account (though that's not very witty, I admit) and of course FB, where I'm forced to watch what I share given that a lot of my students and my boss
and my Dad are all on my friends list. I don't know if I want a Tumblr yet. We'll see where my energies take me.
I would also like to maintain our friendship offline as well. Let's get coffee :)