You know, one of the things I’ve found important in the past has been maintaining a sense of privacy about the intimate moments of my life, for myself and for those who are involved in it. However, I’m thinking that this desire for privacy is holding me back from writing some of the stuff I really want to write.
So I thought I might ask you, the readers, the fans of this blog that have been around for a while. Do you want me to write more about my life in an intimate fashion? Do you want to know more about what I do, who I do it with, and how I feel about it?
Twitter first started in 2006, and now, in 2008, I’m playing around with it and enjoying it. I’ve known about it since 2006, but why didn’t I start using it back then?
There’s a number of reasons, but the main one was that I didn’t understand its value. And if you’re not using it right now, you probably don’t too. That’s ok, because apparently it’s not for everyone. (Well, what is?) But if you’re curious and want to learn a bit more about it, there’s a good article here that I’ve found. I’ll summarise a few interesting points from it below.
It’s common knowledge that if something physically hurts you, then it’s telling you to avoid it. A hot stove plate causes pain? Stay away from it. Sharp knives cut? Be careful with them. Falling off cliffs kill? Don’t get close to the edge.
It can be easily seen that what hurts us is what we try to avoid.
But what about emotional pain?
I find that when I’m experiencing some form of pain in my life that’s based on the interactions I have with other people, then I’m doing something wrong.
Something goes wrong in your life, and you get angry, sad or frustrated. These are emotions based on what? An inability to do anything about it. The funny thing is, how you feel about something isn’t going to change what that something was. It’s not going to change what the results were.
How you feel about it isn’t going to change it. Whatever it is.
So if how you feel isn’t going to change it, then really - does it matter what you feel? No, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is what you do, and while this is often inspired by your feelings, if what you feel won’t change it, then don’t worry about it. Whatever it is.
Over the past couple of days I’ve been playing around with Twitter, trying to understand why it’s the next best thing since Facebook. During the course of this investigation, I attempted to put my ‘Twitterings’ updates onto their own page in this blog, but when that didn’t work, I tried to do it in a blog post, which I would link to from the menu up the top. But that didn’t work either, so I ended up deleting the post. Apologies to all my subscribers!
Deidre found Spike yesterday morning sitting on one of the chairs in our outdoor setting. He'd been out all night, which was a first. We found out why when we saw a huge chunk of flesh taken out of his side. After quickly rushing him to the vet, we sat down while watching them running around out the back dealing with the emergency that was our cat.
I’ve been looking into doing some modifications and upgrades to my car, and in the process of talking about it with various people, some of them have responded with, “Why would you want to spend money on your CAR? It’s DEAD MONEY. It’s going nowhere!”
It’s interesting how many people buy cars and just drive them around until they die, or until they trade them in on another car. Or some people don’t buy cars at all, either considering it a waste of money, or can’t afford it, or it doesn’t fit into their belief systems. And then there are those who spend money on their cars, doing them up, improving their performance or appearance.
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