Blog-shy
When I first started quizzical.net, my main purpose was to play with web languages, design things, and maybe share a bit of myself with the world. When I brought it back from oblivion a month ago, I intended to use it as the outlet for all these cool ideas flying around in my head (when I share them in conversation, my own excitement makes me blind to other people’s boredom). The reason I brought it back when I did is because I recently graduated from college, where college tends to stifle independent thought and enterprise, at least in my case.
Anyway, this intended purpose as a thought-outlet hasn’t been going as well as I’d hoped so far, mostly due to my being terribly self-conscious in expressing my ideas in public, particularly in a format as permanent as written text. A recent example in Virginia politics comes to mind, in which a 60-year old James Webb is taken to task for an article he wrote at 33, and trying to explain to everyone, “I was just a stupid kid!”
So while I believe that a little self-censorship can be a healthy thing, I have the opposite problem of finding it difficult to post a single word on the Internet. The reason I keep doing it is because I believe that if I force myself through it enough times, it will become comfortable habit.