May 30th, 2008
Get real
There’s a darn good blog out there, I don’t know if you’ve come across it before… it’s only a few months old.
No, wait. ‘darn good’ doesn’t cut it. Revolutionary, maybe. It is a blog with many users, though nobody knows exactly how many, and only one username. It is total and complete anonymity, created for the expulsion of secrets from the souls of virtual people. Why would you want to hear other people’s secrets? Because the un-told facts are comforting and can help to soothe its reader’s secret paranoia, and it’s a glimpse at the true raw undercoat of society. It’s why we love those glossy magazines with Geri Halliwell’s stretch-marks all over the cover.
I coud be anyone. I could say anything. And a small part of the whirling cloud of secret lies in my head can lift and I can feel a little lighter as I go through the day.
This is what confession was for, before we all lost faith.
This is what God used to do before we stopped believing in him.
There is no God and so we blog. (Anonymous)
To quote a comment on one of the posts:
I confess to the last post of humour and I put it there because I felt the tone of the writing & comments so far was too serious and too self-absorbed. Contrary to funny, the comments to me have an air of forced false sympathy & I think they need to be more real.
It was my protest against the blog turning into a place to wallow and be wallowed without constructive support or advice.
Sit on the fence why don’t I. (Anonymous)
It’s time to get real, to learn how to let go of social conditioning and face the begrudgers. Fair play Rick O’Shea (hey that rhymes…) for thinking it up.
It’s called:
http://thelivesofothers.wordpress.com/