Hello,
I'm Mervi Eskelinen!
An artist, nerd and sorcerer, dedicated to make world softer and better for everyone, and to get you to make more art. Make art, change the world!
The place all the discarded ideas go
Do you ever begin to write a blog post and after a few moments discard the whole thing? This happens to me all the time. I start writing, get down a couple of paragraphs, perhaps wander to some website to find information about the subject or get otherwise distracted and then come back to the text and realise I'm not in the mood for writing any of that. Or what I had begun to write was complete utter bullshit.
I also do this with Tweets. That's why you don't see me Tweeting 24/7 about every sneeze and thought I have. Most of my thoughts aren't for public audience. So what I do is I start to write a Tweet, maybe get it all done and almost hit the button to make it public. Instead of hitting that button I go and hit the other one, the one that sends the Tweet to the place all the discarded ideas go. Nope, I do not save the Tweet for later either.
I'm being self-conscious, I know. You don't need to tell me that. On the other hand I also know that those who don't do this are way too loud and full of themselves. Also if you are telling me I'm too self-conscious I will label you as an asshole and put you on the list of people who have offended me. Here we go, I stumbled out of the original subject once again!
My problem with everyone on Facebook and Twitter and all over the place that most are just filling the void with noise. Remember how a couple of years back everyone talked about signal over the noise? Well, bygones are bygones, signal got pretty much walked over by the noise.
I'm quite aware that not all my blog posts or all my Tweets are filled with deep thoughts or aren't in retrospect publication worthy. Not even close to all of them, not even half of them. But think about what sort of noisy noise I'd produce if I didn't have my inner censorship firing up now and then. It wouldn't be pretty, it would be messy.
The other day I followed someone on Twitter mainly based on the fact that they appeared not to Tweet much. Similarly I tend to unfollow or mute those who blarb blarb blarb all day long without paying any attention to what others say. Or if they are "nice enough" to use extensive amount of hashtags I mute their most annoying, noisiest of them. Muting makes me happy.
I guess I hope people would have more self-consciousness like me. I guess I hope not everyone would say and Tweet everything that comes to their mind. I don't mind the content of all the blurbs. I just mind the amount of them. I mean, the first sneeze could have been interesting. The second has a value as a repeated joke. The third one is already too much. Look at the llama. The llama knows what I'm talking about.
This is a reader supported blog without paywalls and advertisement. If you appreciate my work and want to help me rewild the internet, please consider becoming a free or paid patron today. I can't do this without the support of readers like you. So if you can to contribute financially, I would really appreciate your help.
