My opinion, does it count?
The first thing we need to do, I think, is define the difference between whore websites (myspace, facebook etc.) and blogging. You can blog on myspace but let’s face it… you’re there because the 2613 people on your friends list make you feel like you matter, discounting of course the fact that 2612 of them don’t know or care who you are as long as your picture is gracing their own ego trips somewhere on page 53.
Blogs are a different kind of ego trip. The mentality that what you say is relevant at all. 999 times out of 1000 it’s not. Most bloggers are cookie cutter pastries of society saying what millions before them have already said better and to greater effect. Are mine different?
What have I written about? Reviews mostly. Places I go, stories I hear, people I meet. Please keep in mind though that my blog was never intended to be original or inspiring or even remotely interesting to the casual passerby. It was created so that if somebody already, or wishing to be, a part of my life, would like to know about me, they were given this option. Since I am far more articulate at writing than speaking, it seems to me the best way. Particularly since I loathe repeating myself, even when it’s about myself. So are my blogs important or meaningful? No, not to anyone who doesn’t already care. Maybe I’ll change that later, but for now I have little unique to bring to the table.
This does however bring to light the question: Am I as big an egotistical douschebag as the rest of you? Yes and no. Nobody who knows me will ever praise me for my humility. Nor should they. If a person is humble, they are either insignificant or lying. A waste of time. I have strong traits and while I don’t linger on them, I’m certainly not humble. Take my classes for example. In any class I’ve taken to date, I am more intelligent regarding that subject than any other person in that class. I don’t gloat about it (<—that wasn’t gloating, it was speculating) and on top of that, I realize that I am probably considerably more lazy than the majority of said people in most of those classes. So what does that make me? Egotistical or humble? Pragmatic, perhaps? Except that I’ll be first to point out examples of myself being quite irrational. Few and far between, but they happen. Or does that make me even more pragmatic to admit that?
Hmm, okay, trailed off a bit at the end there; whatever. Point is, my opinion does not count, but it still carries more weight than most of yours because mine actually have the potential to count because I’m a more intelligent person. Done.
Hmm, was that egotistical or pragmatic? I love combinations.
