I begin to feel like the last blogger picked for
the team, as blogger meetups, some where I lived
up until Spring, happen. I feel ostracized and neglected.
I do know this is irrational. I do know this is not
in any way personal. But I want to leave snotty little
comments on their meet-up posts. Yeah, yeah. Not going
to commit the sin most egregious in mine eye at the moment.
I know I am a hard friend to have, valued because, well,
when you need a tough friend, there I am. A friend to help you move.
8 comments:
I could never attend a 'meet. Z. They always seem a tad precious to me.
Been there, felt that, most of my life in fact.
'Not a joiner', I say resolutely.
Might be cutting off my nose to spite my face, but still...
It seems ironic that I think a lot of people do this because they feel dislocated,displaced,excluded; they have huge amounts of originality and talent but have never been able to show it fully to the outside world around them, aren't joiners, but then feel at last they've found a club that'll have them, which in turn seems exclusive to others.
But I also have to remember why I'm doing this; it's to express myself, be creative for my own sake. The feedback's great and affirming, and I do feel very close to and really treasure a lot of the people I've found here, but I didn't do it to join a club, get given a rating. It's a question of priorities.
Walk away from that feeling of rejection if you can, keep on doing what you do, that's what I come here for.
I hope this is intelligable, I'm not trying to bully you.
I was just thinking, "I'd rather have a blog with a few nice commenters than be read by all the trolls in the world."
One of my best blog-friends has a blog about aggressively marketing your blog and networking, etc. Keep your blog focused and all that stuff. I really couldn't care less for that myself though. I do this to put myself out there, in the hopes that a handful of people will see me and say, "Hey, he's not so bad."
(The only blogger I know in real life is my anarchist friend, the one who got me into this whole thing in the first place.)
I would love to meet you, Zhoen. Just so we're clear on that :-)
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I too would love to meet you, outside of a "meet."
Herhimnbryn, Quite correct. I probably wouldn't go, nor enjoy myself, but I still, perversely, want to be included.
L, heh. Yeah. I don't really even like 'team players."
P, No Trolls. Yes. I can't really do otherwise. This is my own little safe place to simply say whatever I feel and think. This is me.
Dale, Udge, likewise. But, you know, just casually get together and hang out, nothing twee. Actually, I feel that way about most of the folks who stop by, I'd be glad to have then really stop by.
U, I just found out who M2 is, I had no idea.
There were blogger meetups in Boston?
Oh. Me neither, then. Phooey.
Heheheh. Want to join us?
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