I am running this by my mom and my sister, two of the (few) people whose taste I respect most in the world. Pending their approval, I will take the leap and actually share this (I mean it's on the internet already, but more publicly. Facebook or something). It still feels a little like I'm taking up a totally unwarranted amount of cyberspace with this "me me me" stuff . . . but it's not like I'm the only one.
. . . and that sort of insecurity is one of the things I'm trying to conquer. You know how sometimes really painfully shy people can be sort of irritating, because you feel bad for them but it kind of seems like they're just not trying? I have total sympathy, because I used to be one of those people, but it's still hard to watch someone cringing and shrinking from any kind of attention. Attention is fun! And now that I am the kind of person who can never convince friends that I was in fact shy once upon a time, I realize the thing that those people are lacking is the willingness, the confidence, or the sense of entitlement to just MAKE NOISE and TAKE UP SPACE. We all deserve to do a little of that.
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Its so worth it to take up space on the internet. I had the same sort of feeling (that everything I blogged about was pointless and no one cared, or I felt guilty for writing about it online) but I've gotten over it.
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