28 Sep 2006, 10:33pm
When there is a reason to blog...
Posted by Script Writer | Category [ General ]Comments (18) | Trackbacks (0)
I consider vanity a highly undesirable trait when others around me try to be vain. The keyword here is 'try'. As Master Yoda said, "Do or do not. There is no try." Trying to be something you are not is just plain sad. There is no better way to describe that. However, being a natural at something is only praiseworthy. And that includes vanity too. Mind you, only a select handful of those of us who walk on two legs and breathe oxygen are naturally vain, which is why I am so in awe of me. Damn, it is good to be me!
Modesty I don't care a darn about. If you don't beat your own drum, no one will beat it for you. Gaah! Doesn't it just take the biscuit? Even when I least intend to, I use innuendos. Put differently, if you do not blow your own trumpet, no one will blow it for you. Believe me, every married man knows that. He he he. Don't you just love me? All this double-talk just flows out of me of its own accord.
Anyway. My vanity stems from my being great (if not the best) at whatever I do. Like I said, a window is meant for modesty to jump out of. Basically that is why I do not usually make a sojourn on anyone else's blog (Aran is an exception but since she has not been posting these days, that does not really count). What's the point? It will tell me what I already know. I am good. Period.
Once in a while, though, I do make exceptions. Even the best among us is sometimes fallible. But that is not the point. The point is that when I do, apart from my belief in me getting re-inforced further, what mostly happens is that I leave a comment - truth in its most absolute form on the blog. In other words, the writer is told in no uncertain terms what I think about their (like I have always done, non-sexist language shall be used on my posts) writing. Truth, usually is a bitter pill to swallow. Some learn, and their writings start to reflect it. Others don't.
This one writer, however, did exactly against what blogs stand for - free speech. She (purely used to make the language non-sexist) deleted my comment. Not satisfied with that, she actually replied to that comment. So that blog has a reply to a comment that is not there! The reply was something to the effect that she was trying to get a message across and I could be her guest if I thought I could do better.
Apart from mutilating free speech, the one fundamental principle of blogging that the writer failed to understand was that blogging never really was or is about getting a message across for getting a message across is an exercise in futility. As Douglas Adams had said, "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
To round off, another Douglas Adams quote, "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." No reason to use it, except for effect.
Current Mood: Gloomy
Current Music: Eminem - Lose Yourself
Modesty I don't care a darn about. If you don't beat your own drum, no one will beat it for you. Gaah! Doesn't it just take the biscuit? Even when I least intend to, I use innuendos. Put differently, if you do not blow your own trumpet, no one will blow it for you. Believe me, every married man knows that. He he he. Don't you just love me? All this double-talk just flows out of me of its own accord.
Anyway. My vanity stems from my being great (if not the best) at whatever I do. Like I said, a window is meant for modesty to jump out of. Basically that is why I do not usually make a sojourn on anyone else's blog (Aran is an exception but since she has not been posting these days, that does not really count). What's the point? It will tell me what I already know. I am good. Period.
Once in a while, though, I do make exceptions. Even the best among us is sometimes fallible. But that is not the point. The point is that when I do, apart from my belief in me getting re-inforced further, what mostly happens is that I leave a comment - truth in its most absolute form on the blog. In other words, the writer is told in no uncertain terms what I think about their (like I have always done, non-sexist language shall be used on my posts) writing. Truth, usually is a bitter pill to swallow. Some learn, and their writings start to reflect it. Others don't.
This one writer, however, did exactly against what blogs stand for - free speech. She (purely used to make the language non-sexist) deleted my comment. Not satisfied with that, she actually replied to that comment. So that blog has a reply to a comment that is not there! The reply was something to the effect that she was trying to get a message across and I could be her guest if I thought I could do better.
Apart from mutilating free speech, the one fundamental principle of blogging that the writer failed to understand was that blogging never really was or is about getting a message across for getting a message across is an exercise in futility. As Douglas Adams had said, "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
To round off, another Douglas Adams quote, "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." No reason to use it, except for effect.
Current Mood: Gloomy
Current Music: Eminem - Lose Yourself
29 Sep 2006, 2:30am
Get over yourself will ya?
29 Sep 2006, 10:45am
Twigrl, you are back! So being over the top obnoxiously in love with myself is what it takes, huh?
A sick sense of humour aside, Aran and I missed you loads. How have you been?
29 Sep 2006, 11:46pm
Twigrl!! Hi! How have you been?! Where have you been? It hasn't been the same without you really. :D
Oh, and Scripto, I thought your comment didn't make any sense in the first place. And then, it was deleted?
29 Sep 2006, 11:52pm
Sigh. Yes Aran. Deleted it was. Just goes to show how some people will do anything to undo everything civilisation has achieved.
29 Sep 2006, 11:54pm
The person-whose-sex-shall-not-be-revealed deleted a nonsense comment... what is the world coming to! *sob*
29 Sep 2006, 11:56pm
Aran, two things.
1. I already said that when I talked of the decline of civilisation.
2. You are calling my comment 'nonsense'? :(
30 Sep 2006, 12:02am
Scripto,
1. I agreed with your assessment. I am with you. Solidarity and all that.
2. Of course, you're most charming when you're not making sense. I thought you already knew that. :)
30 Sep 2006, 12:04am
Aran, my dear! You make me happy. If you were any where around I could just kiss you. :)
30 Sep 2006, 12:06am
I know I do. :D
Hold the sentiment...
30 Sep 2006, 12:07am
I have not made my mind up yet if kissing is a permissible activity on this blog. My blog being a sacred place and all. Take a vote?
30 Sep 2006, 12:10am
But see, the sentiment is always the most important thing. We can do away with the actual kissing, what with your blog being a sacred place and all. :)
2 Oct 2006, 3:09am
Heeyyy! me doing great, what's up with you both?
3 Oct 2006, 3:34pm
Lots of stuff going on in life Twigrl, most of it nice. I bought 6 books this Sunday... what could be better than that!
3 Oct 2006, 3:35pm
Life is good here too, Twi (can I call you Twi or would that horribly offend you?). Just got back from a very refreshing weekend getaway. What's up with you?
3 Oct 2006, 11:22pm
Consider yourself lucky, Twigrl. You get a loving nickname from Scripto, while the more unfortunate among us... sigh.
5 Oct 2006, 5:45am
Nice to hear that Aran! but i really hope the nice things are not all about you reading the books! ;) Mr writer its fine with me, good you are relaxing! i need that getway really bad. What's up with me is that I have declared a minor in Bus Admin, thats keeping me too busy this sem, also I took university writing exam, and just hoping that they don't make take a writing course ... That's it for now, bye
5 Oct 2006, 2:06pm
Who said 'It is a man's world'? That person should be flogged and skinned alive! Aran and Twi have more fun on this blog than I do. I am not complaining, though. :)
And, Aran. I told you. Nicks are not given to general nicks. There has to be more ingenuity than picking a nick like 'Aran' to get a nick.
6 Oct 2006, 12:13am
See Twigrl, first a nickname, then being credited with ingenuity. Scripto is being really generous with you. And no, the nice things are not only about reading the books. :D