Just thought you’d like to know the hormone tornado is over and I am much at peace with the world. I’ve been walking a lot, and hanging out with my totally awesome husband and feeling comfortable with my general irresponsibility. But I really should get to work now, seeing as it’s 10pm and I haven’t done a lick. I’m too antsy to be moonlighting right now. Don’t tell my husband. Oh wait, he probably noticed already.
Speaking of secrets, it seems to be the dominating topic this week. Have you noticed lately how much of the “private” has become so overly public? everything from hearing way too detailed of private cellphone conversations on the bus to way too much information being divulged on facebook or blogs. I don’t really have much to say about the subject, except I find it fascinating and have been daydreaming about having a project where I perform very personal, private arguments or conversations with another real live person in a very, very public place. Because it doesn’t seem like many people realize just how much more they are potentially complicating their lives… the funny thing is, I wonder if people would even bat an eyelash. Possibly the project would involve an attempt to see just how personal you have to get to evoke a reaction. Seriously, over the past 10 years we’ve watched tv shows about strangers thrown together in fish bowl-like situations, we know too much information about celebrity’s personal lives, even our next president is being turned into a petri dish of personal. We’re numb to it all, so talking about the std we contracted from our cheating boyfriend on a crowded bus doesn’t seem inappropriate anymore.
I realize I get pretty personal in this here blog sometimes, but I’m always checking myself to see if I’m really comfortable divulging details of my personal life… and somewhere along the way I came up with rules for myself about what was appropriate or not, as far as publishing in a public forum was concerned. Most of the time I feel comfortable saying things of a slightly personal nature because I feel I share this world with humans, and we all feeling similar things, right? And sometimes knowing someone else is going through something similar, can make you feel a little more connected to the world, I know it makes me feel more connected when I read something I can relate to.
I don’t know, who knows. All I know is, this phenomenon of sharing the very personal, very publicly, it’s new, really new. It has been developing rapidly over the last 10 years and I’m not so sure it’s always a good thing for us, you know? Maybe we should just take a deep breath before hitting that publish button. Be personal, but be consciously personal, that’s my advice for you today. And try to have a sense of humor about it all, ok? We’re all just creatures of the earth and we can’t take things too seriously or we’ll all crack up.