i'll stop the world and melt with you

for @mercedesmy on twitter 

her website: http://abrokenlaptop.com/

Lyrics | Modern English - Melt With You lyrics


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Blogging as Therapy

  OK, so I had to be reminded I even had a blog.  Is this what life has come to? That we are "supposed" to blog because that is the "in" thing to do? I have been a writer all my life, and it does exactly what? My mentor, says that a blog is the center of one's social universe and uses a pinwheel illustration to prove the point, which I will have to snag from him one day.  Then there is Sam, a colleague of mine who blogs to entertain, make people think, and to be sarcastic.  I however have found that I have lived just fine without this whole blog thing, and not missed a wink of sleep.  I was reminded about it by ASSOCIATIONllc
on twitter that I had this blog.  Is that pathetic?   

  Can blogging really be therapy if we write professionally? Well, yes, it can be, and no it doesn't necessarily do much for us.  I think we can write a blog post every now and again, just for fun.  It doesn't have to be character development, it doesn't have to be technical writing or journalism.   Blogging can be just for the fun of it, and can be a way to discipline ourselves to writing in general.  I don't think that it does much for me, but then again, I have to write all day, everyday.

  As a friend pointed out to me, he thinks I  need to blog as therapy.  "Therapy for what?" or from what? I realized it can be just me putting my thoughts down, and getting a free session from the shrink in my head.  That's ok.  I don't have much faith in professional shrinks anyway, all they do is listen and say "How does that make you feel?"  It makes me feel like an idiot for paying you, that's how it makes me feel.

  So I am adding this post just to state that I have my free therapy session, and I guess I could add some more to it, but it's Friday night, and I want to go back to Twitter and do the Follow Friday thing.  I do have some tweets to post, and some links I can find from my timeline, and maybe an interesting 'weird' news story or two, let's see how I feel next week.

  This was really lame thinking out loud like this, and not really coming up with a Topic, Body, Closing Paragraph or Thesis, was it not? But at least I did as advised and got in here and got my Therapy.  Probably more benefit than a real shrink.

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Life and All that Goes With It

Trust.  Something we give, something we earn.  Nothing to be taken lightly. 

I think sharing secrets with others we meet online is a mistake, and I have recently learned this vicariously through a colleague.  I don't even want to go into the details, but suffice it to say he revealed something of himself, and has now sworn off Twitter entirely.  And he didn't even do it in the open, but in a Direct Message.  

We can make some pretty terrible decisions based upon trust, nothing to be trifled with. Is it?  When we believe in others, we expose ourselves, we give of ourselves, and that can sometimes be trivialized or more importantly, used later on against us.  There are many types of people on Twitter and other Social Networks all with their own agendas. 

Remember that next time you disclose something of importance, what we say can be completely flipped around, and turned on its head.   I have become very guarded with what I disclose.  It's almost as though the very nature of a social network is to share some truths, but in a sidelong annoymous way, never disclosing too many secrets. 

Not a sermon, just a thought.