the opening post, a place of trivial justification and pithy disclaimers. yes? that is my preconceived template of what the blog is like.

wait i'll get back to this, seinfeld is on.

... and the world awaits with bated breath for her next blog...

back to this i come, the seinfeld episode that is on is one i watched earlier today.

i luke-warmedly hold the opinion that dabblings in self expression are somewhat self indulgent, that they are an especially western notion, where the individual seeks to assert themselves, to self actualize and stake claim to their own uniqueness.
i have considered art that doesn't veer towards social critique as somewhat selfish; a reflection of the surplus of time ones easy lifestyle affords them.

to be placed in the realm of the other:
but, while reading the blog of a friend of mine, i couldn't help but feel a sort of warmth. one of those weird existential sort of feelings when you re-realise (just as though it is the first time) you're not the only individual. and so, my notion of blogs as self indulgent was trampled. her blog served to de-centre me, and remind me, as i constantly seem to forget, of the infinity encapsulated within and around my finite existence.

the world in a grain of sand, the world in a full stop.

when reading my friends blog i had the wonderful experience of viewing someone i knew primarly through oral communication through a different lens. and to check this feeling didn't exist because the writer was a close friend of mine, i read other blogs, and still there was the same weird warm feeling i mentioned earlier, though i concede, not as strong.


so, as for you, dear reader, do i assume a conversational tone with you? hide behind my anonymity and bask in the brilliantly illusory power it grants me? what service is it i offer here? in the light of a previous statment, shall i get on my shabby moral high horse and dish out tasty tales of injustice?
perhaps the blog is a place of self indulgence. and perhaps, that is not as bad a thing as i thought.
hopefully the silly little vignettes into my silly little mind will place a smile upon your face.

and here i shall place a quote from some intimidating intellectual to lend some prestige to this place
"a life unexamined is not worth living" -Socrates/Plato