Here's some honesty for you.
Yesterday's post was extraordinarily middle class of me. It has left me uneasy and wondering what my blog is about. When I started it I thought I would be able to provide some pretty trivial and perhaps humorous commentary on things that turn through my head. Coffee runs through it often, perhaps literally I have that much. But looking back over On Loyalty, I really have to wonder whether I have better things to think about. I know it's light hearted and all, but dear me. How's this, an online existential crisis.
So to prove a point to myself more than anything, and to perhaps start a new theme where I transcend banality and confront you with the inner workings of a busy learned man, here's a list of things that I am contemplating now, in no particular order:
1. the 'acting role' I am starting with a government department tomorrow. how does this sit with me? round and round.
2. music. a friend introduced me to the band Tool recently. i bought a cd of theirs today. i am finding this to be quite profound.
3. children. another due in 10 weeks. serious stuff. a guy at the cycling club just named his new girl the same name as my girl. probably no link but very nice all the same.
4. networks and friends. meeting new people all the time, thought it got harder as you get older but apparently not. fun too.
5. hobbies. working hard to try new things and see where some passions lie. love reading and thinking but want something I can touch or hold or build. hmm.
Good, I feel better now. A decent purge, probably no more interesting but feels ok. :) Leave a comment and tell me how you view it.
MITB
Scooter No. 10
15 years ago
Too hard on yourself MITB! If you're middle class - however you define it and whatever it's virtues and vices - then that's what you are. So what?
ReplyDeleteI love reading about your ideas - keep it up. And writing about trivial stuff as a serious topic puts it in proper perspective IMO. Maybe your blog isn't about anything in particular.
Maybe it doesn't have to be. There's a theme to mine, but what that is is probably only really clear to me.
Now this is all getting too self-referential about the medium, I see what you mean about an online existential crisis.
Oh, and you think my blogs are long? How's this for a brief comment...:)
Hobbies, I am an avid hobbyist, however I excite in the intangible, the things that we can't touch and feel, after all it's the stories about the tangible that make them interesting, isn't that why we visit museums??
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty cool, two comments in response to the one blog. And the first two comments ever. Hmm. There's something in this. While Unit and Karlie have focused on different things - Unit a defence of middle class superiority ;) and Karlie a defence of banal and tedious recreation such as collecting, and other passive pursuits - each of them in fact have reacted to On Honesty. This candid insight from MITB has finally activated his middle class and passive audience. Good. :)
ReplyDeleteI was just coming back here to suggest, from my passive, middle class reading list, that Karlie might enjoy "The Idea of Perfection" by Kate Grenville if a) she hasn't already read it, and b) she isn't too absorbed by the banal and tedious and MITB isn't demanding too much of her attention as a reader with his candid insights.
ReplyDeleteI note that you have managed, MITB, to up the comments to 3 by writing your own :)