That’s it, I’m stopping the blog.
I’ve never really had much that was particularly interesting to write about, and as I think I said in my last post, I’ve never particularly wanted to expose my own privacy in blog-posts, so I’ve not even had that to talk about.
In the same way I now find a lot of student journalism petty and disheartening and often bloody cruel (and I’m betting that it’s worse in the real world) I find the ‘blogosphere’ sometimes very arrogant and often a very cold place.
People (and I’m one of them; we’ve all been guilty of it) can be very cruel when it feels as though the person they are writing to is anonymous, made so through a computer screen. You don’t have to apologise to a computer for hurting its feelings, for causing distress, in the same way you would if you were talking face-to-face.
There’s more potential to be misunderstood; there’s more room for people to assume that everything they think is important when often it’s not. It’s certainly not original. I doubt anyone really has many truly original thoughts any more; the ones that are original and interesting to read are often swallowed up by the dross of the rest.
Unless you’re able to write engagingly and cleverly on subjects close to your heart (which often, in the blogs I most enjoy following, means talking to an audience you know about mutually shared events and people) there’s little interesting to say, I think. I certainly don’t think much that I write is particularly interesting and engaging; I just find myself getting tired and angry as I rehearse the same old arguments and the same debates.
Frankly, I’m getting fed up of losing my voice. So maybe if I stop keeping this blog and pouring energy into thinking about it, I’ll have room in my head to think properly again.
It’s been fun, but I only ever meant to keep this up for a year anyway.
Goodbye.
