How does one know when one has mastered it?
So far I’m not sure I have. But you tell me…
From a literary, I-do-A-Level-English-Language-and-have-had-some-prior-writing-experience standpoint, it’s apparent that the first blog was more like a commentary, with some personal opinions thrown in… “With A Purpose To Inform”, one would say in class… Call me an idiot, but I don’t think that is the essence or intended primary purpose of blogging.
And then there’s my second attempt, which was almost entirely composed of opinion, but I’m unsure if that’s a good thing.
Meh, that’s why these things aren’t professionally published: they vary in style, awesomeness, purpose and format from one bloggage to another. There’s way too much change and variation between articles by one author (just look at mine so far! One about blood, another about British ignorance, and this. I don’t even know what this is… oh wait, the title gives away! What a surprise!), nevermind variation between each of the thousands or more that would be being published if blogging were like a professional online magazine business…
Which is an interesting idea, isn’t it? An online, professional magazine business… But then I guess the entire internet is just exactly that, and there are lots of amateur sites which attempt that, by simply providing the links. Obviously, those site creators overestimate their audience’s willingness (or is it their capacity) to do things for themselves, instead of just finding a better website which provides all of their entertainment on one page.
Which is likely to be the site they return to, since nothing, not even brain cells, is/are expected of them. None of this “click the link below and do the dang work yourself if you’re so interested” business.
Psshhh, what do they take us for? People who sit at a computer for hours at a time, often eating too-big meals or sugary, energy-giving junk food which should make us more willing or at least ok with/resigned to doing things themself with less reluctance?
But anyway, we’re getting off-track. But maybe that’s a good thing? More variation=good? Or is it the Kiss of Death?
Speaking of which, if the Kiss brings death, then what’s the act which brings life (no, not that way. We’re talking metphorically here) ? Is it like, “the near-fatal-stab of life”? Or “the stomach poisoningness of life”?
One could say, that the opposite of death isn’t ‘life’, but is, in fact ‘not death’. And it would follow that the opposite to life is ‘not life’. In the real world, ‘not life’ and ‘not death’ equate to the same as the traditional idea of what is opposite to life or death. To them, ‘not life’ is death, for the most part, and ‘not death’ is life.
But many people’s minds live not in the real world, preferring to reside elsewhere. Preferring to distract and wash away their minds and identities through the media… Through books and films and celebrities and people’s looked-down-on obsessions with the media… Like readaholics; or those obsessed teenagers who know EVERYTHING about their “fave celeb hottie”, and everything that poor person ever said to any interviewer anywhere; or those “freaks” at Star Wars or Start Trek conventions (whichever you think is dorkier – personally, I’d opt for ‘Trek, simply because of it’s, ”ample naycells”-yes, I watched the movie), which conventions most people never seem to know about. It’s like they’re organised by secret societies who must establish whether you’re enough of a “Trekkie” or “geek” to attend before divulging that precious information on the TMP of these Hallowed and Sacred Star Trek Conventions. (TMP means Time, Manner, Place. An acronym I picked up in German and never forgot. Possibly something to do with my German-knowing mother)…
But I digress. Let’s reverse and back up a little from our digression to the Kiss of Death. Upon editing the grammar and removing some of the more repetitive features of my appalling first draft of this blog, it occurred to me that you can also have a Kiss of Life. So it’s possible to have Kisses of Life and of Death, and the normal ones in the middle. So if you can have one from each end of the spectrum, and we know you can have ones in between, then where are the other in-betweens belonging to other dramatic concepts, like those of life and death? ‘Love’ and ‘hate’ have ‘like’ and ‘dislike’, in between those somewhere is ‘indifferent’; but what about ‘free’ and ‘enslaved’? The opposite to free varies with opinion I suppose, and whether or not one is truly free is debatable, as some consider freedom an absolute, an either/or choice, not unlike digital radio, which is either on or off; others consider it like analogue radio, anywhere between on and off – like you can be free in this way but not in that way… And you can be free to do this, but not to do that… And so on.
And what about the more obscure and random opposites? Like “tied up” or “not tied up”? How about that? Is there a medium, besides the idea of somehow being partially tied up?
Not that it matters, just more digression, which is somewhat pointless. And again, is that a good thing?
Or was the totally irrelevant stream of consciousness and thought just another unwanted, usually not-accepted-without-laughter-at-my-expense tangent?
I don’t know these answer to any of these questions (maybe, just maybe, that may be the reason I asked them in the first place? :O shock/horror! Gasp!)… But maybe you could let me know…
Or maybe I will just write another blog sometime in the future, when I’m bored and can’t think of anything to do but write about what I’ve learned..
