Re: In which Woff admits.
12-06-2011, 10:05 PM
I'm not a very enthusiastic person
The worst part about moving to another phase of your life is meeting all sorts of people who also did that and did it much better than you. They'll start telling you about how they got an award for their exceptional scores in history which got them into college, how they play competitively in the highest ranks of national snowboarding, how they're published poets and broadcast for their regional news.
Then usually all eyes turn to me and I have to say "I don't have facebook and I write."
I don't have facebook, because I like to act as if I'm a huge hipster who likes music you probably never heard of and wears tailored scarves from thrift stores as if I have giant shuttershades hanging above me. I just don't want a facebook because it'd lead to a lot of discoveries made about me I'd liek to keep secret from most people like my real name, my gender, what I had for supper. Anything that could spawn a contradiction into what I've been telling people I am. But when you meet real life people you can't politely thank and say "yeah no I don't have facebook because online people might be able to find out whether I'm a girl or a guy."
That last part is usually just a mumble. I don't want to admit I write to anyone because it is a very lame thing to do as far as hobbies go. I don't even write my very own great things, it's really mostly just battles and blurbs and scraps, and short stories that don't get finished. So I mainly try to avoid the topic because inevitably it leads to "write something." As if it's the same as "sing a song." Or the ever-popular "can you show me something then?"
I am not deviantart-style ashamed of my work where I think it's good but I say it's bad so other people can say it's good for me. I genuinely think I am not that good that I want to show people my work or at least outside of any forum designated to learning and improving writing like this one.
The worst part about moving to another phase of your life is meeting all sorts of people who also did that and did it much better than you. They'll start telling you about how they got an award for their exceptional scores in history which got them into college, how they play competitively in the highest ranks of national snowboarding, how they're published poets and broadcast for their regional news.
Then usually all eyes turn to me and I have to say "I don't have facebook and I write."
I don't have facebook, because I like to act as if I'm a huge hipster who likes music you probably never heard of and wears tailored scarves from thrift stores as if I have giant shuttershades hanging above me. I just don't want a facebook because it'd lead to a lot of discoveries made about me I'd liek to keep secret from most people like my real name, my gender, what I had for supper. Anything that could spawn a contradiction into what I've been telling people I am. But when you meet real life people you can't politely thank and say "yeah no I don't have facebook because online people might be able to find out whether I'm a girl or a guy."
That last part is usually just a mumble. I don't want to admit I write to anyone because it is a very lame thing to do as far as hobbies go. I don't even write my very own great things, it's really mostly just battles and blurbs and scraps, and short stories that don't get finished. So I mainly try to avoid the topic because inevitably it leads to "write something." As if it's the same as "sing a song." Or the ever-popular "can you show me something then?"
I am not deviantart-style ashamed of my work where I think it's good but I say it's bad so other people can say it's good for me. I genuinely think I am not that good that I want to show people my work or at least outside of any forum designated to learning and improving writing like this one.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.