A dim bulb brightens!
Not bright enough, of course, to earn me any money.
You guys know how I used to post long-winded repetitive rants about how much I hate my life, or society, or girls, right? Well I still get those urges to do so, which I either swallow, write in Pocket Word on my phone, or use to transform myself into Dark Mal and treat my coworkers like shit. Or drown in a pint of Ben & Jerry's.
Well, I started thinking, "I should make a separate LJ to empty all of these thoughts; I could give it a pretty layout to make it fun to read when I want to reminisce, and either make it private, or friends-only without any friends added, in case for some awful reason I'd actually want somebody to see it."
Then I got to thinking "What's the point in even doing that if I have no intention of showing it to anybody? The only reason I'd want to do that is so some day in the future, I can show this to somebody else in a subconscious attempt at making them feel sorry for me."
Then I thought "Plus, it'd be obnoxious posting to that journal... unless, of course, I just made it a private LJ Community that I could post to from my own LJ account at my own leisure. But then I'd still be tempted to show it to people."
And then it dawned on me... Why not allow OTHER like-minded people to post in said community?? Other people who are sick and tired and pissed off about an aspect of their lives that they just want to get off their chest, on a forum for others to read and support them through, but not all over their journal so they look like they just ate a whole bushel of Emo Oranges? Somewhere where they can feel safe to bitch about the same thing over and over again without looking like a moron to others, because the ONLY others reading would be just as angsty and dejected as they are?
It would be the ultimate therapy... you know, aside from making an appointment with a therapist. It would be like a support group! Only one with stupid animated icons with very tiny blinking text, and probably fragmented lyrics from some bullshit Bright Eyes song.
But I would need some sort of rules and regulations, to avoid it turning into the "How Much You Suck" community off of GreatestJournal. Rules that I would have to follow myself, such as "Don't flame anybody, no matter how fucking lame they appear to be."
What do you guys think? Suggestions? Critique?
You guys know how I used to post long-winded repetitive rants about how much I hate my life, or society, or girls, right? Well I still get those urges to do so, which I either swallow, write in Pocket Word on my phone, or use to transform myself into Dark Mal and treat my coworkers like shit. Or drown in a pint of Ben & Jerry's.
Well, I started thinking, "I should make a separate LJ to empty all of these thoughts; I could give it a pretty layout to make it fun to read when I want to reminisce, and either make it private, or friends-only without any friends added, in case for some awful reason I'd actually want somebody to see it."
Then I got to thinking "What's the point in even doing that if I have no intention of showing it to anybody? The only reason I'd want to do that is so some day in the future, I can show this to somebody else in a subconscious attempt at making them feel sorry for me."
Then I thought "Plus, it'd be obnoxious posting to that journal... unless, of course, I just made it a private LJ Community that I could post to from my own LJ account at my own leisure. But then I'd still be tempted to show it to people."
And then it dawned on me... Why not allow OTHER like-minded people to post in said community?? Other people who are sick and tired and pissed off about an aspect of their lives that they just want to get off their chest, on a forum for others to read and support them through, but not all over their journal so they look like they just ate a whole bushel of Emo Oranges? Somewhere where they can feel safe to bitch about the same thing over and over again without looking like a moron to others, because the ONLY others reading would be just as angsty and dejected as they are?
It would be the ultimate therapy... you know, aside from making an appointment with a therapist. It would be like a support group! Only one with stupid animated icons with very tiny blinking text, and probably fragmented lyrics from some bullshit Bright Eyes song.
But I would need some sort of rules and regulations, to avoid it turning into the "How Much You Suck" community off of GreatestJournal. Rules that I would have to follow myself, such as "Don't flame anybody, no matter how fucking lame they appear to be."
What do you guys think? Suggestions? Critique?