(no subject)

[rivka]

I just made a much more personal post than usual to Respectful of Otters.

Now I'm freaking out, for reasons which make no sense. I've talked about this stuff on newsgroups and in LJ for years. What makes my blog feel so different?

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

I, too, have talked about various personal things in newsgroups and other public online spaces, but I decided a while back that I didn't want to do that anymore. I've been in a similar position (http://www.livejournal.com/users/therealjae/107441.html), though, made the same decision, and felt similarly nervous. So I get your feelings on this one all too well.

Still, I'm very glad you wrote what you wrote, and I suspect a lot of other people will be, too. There's one kind of good blog post that's purely rigorous intellectual analysis of a situation, but there's another, arguably even better kind of good blog post that comes from having strong feelings about a situation and thinking about those feelings enough to come to an intellectual understanding of them. What makes posts like that so valuable is that they have the power to make people both think *and* feel, and that's a wonderful thing that's all too rare.

-J