Blimey it's been a while in Rambling sane thoughts of the terminally me

I hope you’re all well. I haven’t been writing in this for ages. I’m sure there’s a good excuse but I can’t think of it. I guess I’m just lazy.

When I first started writing in Open diary it was a place to put my poems, sure, but it was also a place to air my views. Over the years and with the advances in social media I have become convinced of the obvious. Our views are really boring.

I can’t open Facebook without seeing a political agenda popping up somewhere. Now this can be an educational tool of merit but most of the time it’s another ill supported rant and even if it’s something I believe in I’ll end up taking umbrage with it because if I can pick holes in the argument then it can’t be that compelling. This lead me to wonder if maybe my arguments were as easily defeated and, of course, they usually are. Sooner or later they fall back on being simply what I believe and my justification is as personal as those people who are opposing my arguments. I still believe in my arguments but am I really going to convince anyone with them? No. They’re based on personal philosophy so the only people they’re going to appeal to are people with the same personal philosophy who probably already believe much the same things I do. Those people who are opposed to them aren’t going to accept the fundamental premises under which my view points have formed and so won’t ever agree with my conclusions no matter how I phrase them.

The other half of my writing was usually the poetry but, once again, I don’t do much of that any more. Writing was an outlet for me to get things written down and outside my head and it still sometimes happens but I’m generally more happy in my head then I have been for a long time and I don’t feel the need to put it into some form of rhythm and rhyme much these days.

So this is, I suppose, more of a journal now. Why though? I could chronicle my life in here but to what point? Really just to say I was doing it, I suppose.

I think I need to have a think about how I’m going to tackle future entries. Perhaps there’s something I can write about that will make writing more appealable to me? Maybe I could start writing reviews of more stuff. I did enjoy writing about Doctor Who episodes.

Anyhow, quick life update.

Major points: Still employed, still relatively poor. Still trying.

Specifics: Kathleen and I are still together and I’m extremely happy with this. I will not bore you with how awesome she is but I will say she knitted me a sonic screwdriver for Valentines Day. How fantastic is that?

That’s about it. Later.
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