Saturday, November 1, 2008

Post Traumatic Stress,

Hi my name is Heath and I am a blogger. It has been 6 days since my last post.

I’m feeling anxious, like I must update my blog for its four faithful readers. I considered posting about a guy who can do a back flip in his wheel chair. I considered putting up more photos of my kids from Halloween. But these felt forced.

I’m always feel energized when I see one of the blogs I follow post something new. Blogs form connections and are new media for communication.

I feel stress to create a post. Not just to post for others, but to live enough to find something that is worthy to post; something I can look back on in a year and re-enjoy.

Post traumatic stress is more a desire to live enough to have something worth posting than it is to have something to post for others.

5 comments:

Jared said...

Just so John doesn't feel like he is the only one to rip on your posts I thought I would step into the uninvited negative commenter role. I also must defend jargon you used from my profession.
Calling your feelings of pressure to post and guilt about not posting "Anxiety and PTSD" is about as accurate a description for your experience as calling your experience "procrastinating English as a second language." Anxiety is a generalized fear which I am not getting from you but rather an unpleasant emotion about not posting. And more importantly PTSD is a disorder characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts and memories of a past traumatic event such as rape or war. I know some of Johns comments about your posts have been harsh but PTSD? Either way I like your posts very much and this is not an invite to rip my blog because I dish it out much better than I take it and if you did rip my blog I may develop PTSD;) Jared

queasyfish said...

Why do I feel like I did something wrong? - I didn't say shit.

I do agree with Jared though; using "punny" metaphors without a master's degree in the subject matter, is as ill-advised as athletic-oriented blog icons for lazy people.

And worse even, it encourages long, boring responses.

Jared said...

Wow, after John's response to my comment I now also have Q related "post comment traumatic stress disorder." I guess I will from now on keep to the supportive type of comment and let John do all the ripping.

queasyfish said...

now I feel like I walked into a set-up...

Jared said...

You can never trust an Anders(s)on.