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I know that no one's using LJ anymore, but it's still weird to see my friends feed totally empty.
Maybe this will be the last time I write in my LJ. I've thought about writing in Line Blog, but I haven't really looked into how to go about it.
I miss being able to share my thoughts. LJ was very influential during my teens, along with online forums and online chat. There was certainly a lot of showing and presenting back in the early days of social media, but I feel that nowadays it's not really appropriate to show internal thoughts and feelings. Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong medium. The online communities that I were a part of were very tight-knit, too, and perhaps I'm missing that as much as anything else from two decades ago.
I felt emotionally connected to so many people, even though I had never met any of them. I wonder how everyone else is dealing with being an adult.
One of my favorite songs is a song Faye Wong released in 2005 called "A love letter to myself". I've tried to take its lyrics to heart since then, but I still haven't been able to.
"Like a big tree in the yard
Without it
Even if I return home, there would be no shelter from the rain"
That self is not just the person running home to get out of the rain, but also the home. Everyone needs to turn inward sometimes; everyone has that home within them, but if there isn't anything to help protect and maintain that space, turning to that space would give little comfort.
I like to think that everyone is just their own bag of insecurities that are just trying to make their way in the world, but I'd also like to know how to do that better.
Maybe this will be the last time I write in my LJ. I've thought about writing in Line Blog, but I haven't really looked into how to go about it.
I miss being able to share my thoughts. LJ was very influential during my teens, along with online forums and online chat. There was certainly a lot of showing and presenting back in the early days of social media, but I feel that nowadays it's not really appropriate to show internal thoughts and feelings. Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong medium. The online communities that I were a part of were very tight-knit, too, and perhaps I'm missing that as much as anything else from two decades ago.
I felt emotionally connected to so many people, even though I had never met any of them. I wonder how everyone else is dealing with being an adult.
One of my favorite songs is a song Faye Wong released in 2005 called "A love letter to myself". I've tried to take its lyrics to heart since then, but I still haven't been able to.
"Like a big tree in the yard
Without it
Even if I return home, there would be no shelter from the rain"
That self is not just the person running home to get out of the rain, but also the home. Everyone needs to turn inward sometimes; everyone has that home within them, but if there isn't anything to help protect and maintain that space, turning to that space would give little comfort.
I like to think that everyone is just their own bag of insecurities that are just trying to make their way in the world, but I'd also like to know how to do that better.