Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

The Way We Were, Are and Could Be

Our parent’s generation kept scrap books by posting bits and pieces of their lives and thoughts into it. Every once in awhile they would open it up and look at it and laugh.

Sounds like a blog doesn’t it?

A personal blog, is the modern equivalent of a personal scrap book. We put our thoughts and emotions into it, thereby investing it with part of our personality. When others read our blogs, they come to learn more about us because our posts are infused with our hopes, dreams and failures.

Perhaps not.

A couple of nights ago, I was told by a fellow blogger that she was rather surprised that I didnt turn out to be the arrogant prick with a gigantic ego that Cowboy Caleb is supposed to be. After she got to know me better, I turned out to be a rather nice guy. I am Cowboy Caleb, but Cowboy Caleb is not me.

Which got me wondering about how much I really know about my fellow bloggers. Are the personae they present on their blogs, really representative of the true person?

So maybe blogs are actually like the modern equivalent of a masquerade. Some of us are wearing masks. We don’t want to reveal who we actually are, and prefer to present who we would like to be instead.

In fact I could actually be a 15 year old chinese girl in a wheelchair, blessed with a vivid imagination.

Keep on bloggin’.

I think it’s the other way round. What you are on your journal / blog is really the true nature of the person that is you. We put on too many masks and built too many walls in our everyday life that we appear completely a different person than the one that we really are, when nobody’s around. Amen!

I guess none of us have one personality only. We are all multi faceted, behaving differently towards different people. There isn’t one “nice” person who is never mean to anyone.

darren > i agree man.

evie > we’re al schizo’s???

*smacks* obviously you didn’t get the point.

That voice that speaks in your mind all the time.. that’s you.. and it gets a hearing on your blog. So your blog is you.

…unless you are not being honest to your blog. Then your blog in just another “mask” you put on, and we’ve been enjoying the mental masturbation everyday.

evie > there is a point?

darren > yes, blogging is mental masturbation. Just that you cannot climax buahahahahahhaa. Grossss!

virtually you

i know that wacky is similar to the real life person

ngader = anagram of danger.

roaaaarrrr!!!

Ngader is also an angram for:

A DR ENG
GARDEN
RANGED
GANDER
DANGER
GRANDE

ok.

DR GANDER ENG - A GRANDE RANGED DANGER GARDEN

ngader, you seriously need your head checked pronto. Hahahaha.

We are a combinations of faces and one of the face is the carefree blogger.

People have blogs for many reasons. I started blogging because a friend kept on pestering me to try out Blogger.

Picolo > You mean juvenile right? Haha.

Ld Idler > and see how far you have come. You’ve been in the papers before right? Featured blogger or something.

That doesn’t seem to ring true. YOu’re a callous crude cowboy.

Here comes my evil nemesis - the evil FF.

*** star wars imperial march song ***

haiyo, so childish. Oh, another adjective starting with C.

here is my right cheek.

I am sd, sd is me.

liar

Actually, who was that idiot blogger who said you were nice?

she is this girl who is a horrible monster by day, but becomes this nice sweet lady at night. I think she’s schizo.

Blogging is a gap. A gap where our very own otherness can fill. Where our ind play without the restriction of confirmity. Ego’s let loose and thoughts set free. I am the Unknown but The Unknown isn’t me. He’s a part of me who i don’t often potry in real life. A Blog is a language, a canvas where emotions spill without the usual thrills.

fuaaaaahhhhh

** claps hands **

Amen…

everyday you say amen, darren..

hmm good question. It really depends on how honest you are. I am an honest blogger, meaning that I use my blog as some kind of uncensored diary. So I am not as honest in real life as Darren already pointed out, so real life/ blogging aneki doesn’t match !

thats exactly what I meant.

maybe the real aneki is the blogger, while the you in RL is the mask instead.