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“Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.”  -Ann Landers

http://www.wefeelfine.org/index.html is a super interesting site, which is, basically, “an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.”   What it is does is “harvest” entries from blogs, and just kind of mashes them together in a plethora of ways.  It’s a lot more complex, and not as dumb sounding as I’m making it, so just check out the site if you’re even remotely interested….. and if you’re not even REMOTELY interested, hell, you shouldn’t even be reading this, because, quite frankly, only remotely interesting people (who, likewise, I expect to be remotely interested) read my blog.  nudge nudge.

It’s always so strange for me catching glimpses of people’s lives via the internet.  It’s for this strangeness that I personally refrain from joining facebook or myspace or friendster or such….  Its not that I have anything against these sites/things, its just they always inevitably makes me feel real awkward (more so than usual)… its hard to describe why!  But I’ll try….. what I realize is that when I did try using those sites in the past, when doing so I always felt this nagging itch… as if I were invading another’s privacy, albeit welcomed.  And being I value my own (privacy) admittedly more than most, it just didn’t and doesn’t feel right for me.  I submit that their are plenty of valid and good reasons to use those sites, but I can’t seem to get away from that feeling.  It is strange knowing someone without them directly knowing that you are getting to know them, if you know what I mean.

But then I realize that I’m writing this on MY blog, and I have to think about it twice.  I guess why this is okay for me and not “that” is because this seems one way and streamlined.  Everything I write is controlled, it is meant to be read, and likewise everything I read, to some degree, I figure must also be controlled.  But I won’t deny it still feels weird…. it is, in ways, kind of the same.  Oh no.  Am I becoming an old fogey?

Anyway, in keeping with the theme of wefeelfine.org, in parting, I will submit that today I am inordinately glad… just because.