Bloggers and Chatt-ies were once intimidating to me.
Although an avid blogger and chatty myself, I had this fantastical visualization; an image depicting other bloggers--"true bloggers"-- being more capable of living a WHOLE life than my Self could ever live.
At one time, I enjoyed the pleasure of "knowing" like-minded persons on message boards. I joined the fabulous home school boards, strength training boards, stay-at-home mom boards, and parenting boards.
I delighted in meeting new people and being introduced to their BLOGS; their spectacular places of sharing LIFE AS THEY KNOW IT. What excitement!
It was news to me, then, when I discovered (and much to my sorrow) that there was the possibility that all these supermoms and superpeeps were really not so super at all. They were people who didn't do much else but sit on the internet all day long. How did I come across this speculation? I noticed that their blogs (all lavish and wonderful) were constantly being updated and rearranged in such huge time-consuming ways.
The once-interesting journal entries were greatly reduced to topics written on the subject of-- internet links, internet friends, and internet goals.
I soon discovered that a journal can, indeed carry one away to becoming a total EDIT-tool-fool. I've learned that People, no matter how wonderful and genuine they may seem, are still people. They still can find themselves generously wasting away their time and their lives to their little internet world--you know--LIFE AS THEY KNOW IT.
If I get lost in my little LIFE AS I KNOW IT place, please, throw me a rope and bail me out.
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