Living in a world of increasing isolation between individuals due to advancement in communication technology, blogging is an avenue where one can express his or her thoughts. It is also a way where friends who seldom get to meet keep in touch and update each other. (Like us) However, I realised that blogs might not be such a apt tool for expressions. Iping once told me, when people blog they tend to exaggerate events, feelings and emotions. A random mood swing can just mutate into depression and in some extreme cases, suicidal. In other cases, i witnessed vindictive comments passed in a fit of anger. And the "victim" would often return their version of angry rebuttals. So i wonder, what is the point of blogging? To scold? To criticise? To seek attention? To gain sympathy? As a result, you will observe the palpable dwindling entries from me. I begin to understand that no one will be interested in the blabbering about your monotonous humdrums of daily routines or what you bought from shopping with your best friends today.
All humans are so. They crave for dramatization. Every time when car accidents occur, the traffic jams which results even after the crashed cars had been moved to the sides are perfect illustrations of the human's ugly nature. It might be disheartening to some of the more kind natured ones who are reading this entry. Or perhaps, you might feel that my statements are just generalisation. Yes. They are generalisation. I am sure there are some people who slowed down their cars because they were wondering if there was anything they could help. However, I would just like to ask, how many are those some; or i should say how little. That might be one reason for all the exaggeration in blog entries; to draw more attention.
As more and more people learn about this blog, I becoming increasingly uncomfortable in posting personal feelings and expressing my thoughts, in fear that they would find me parochial or even immature. Even more so, I detest the mere thought that people might be deriving pleasure from my miseries. The idea of some stranger knowing about my feelings, my difficulties and even my life; or at least part of them proved to be too overwhelming.
I may sound reprimanding in my words. Rest assured, they are just comments arising from what i have seen through the course of my life. I, myself, am guilty of taking extra interest in the challenges and difficulties of others at times. To me, it is just human. There is no right and wrong in having interest in these lurid contents. We are brought up this way due to the environment and the society. Few can resist the temptations. Those who did not succumb are the minority possessing extraordinary power of self-control.
Hope this short entry had brought you a few minutes of entertainment and most importantly set you thinking----- Why are you reading this blog/entry?(for non-owners of blog)
