Changes in the offing

[serai]

Everybody talks about truth like it's toilet paper, and they got a supply in the closet. But what you discover as you get older is that there ain't no truth. All there is, is bullshit. And you pick the brand of bullshit you prefer, and that's your bullshit.

-- Bernie LaPlante, Hero




Originally, I came to LJ in order to read fan fiction, and to have someplace to put my own. I was not particularly interested in personal matters, either in posting my own or reading anyone else's. Didn't have either the time or inclination to get tangled up in stuff that, let's face it, really has nothing to do with my life.

Well, a little at a time, I got distracted from that very sensible viewpoint, until the Goddess, in her inimitable way, felt compelled to slap me in the face. Not too hard, but hard enough to make me sit up and think, What the hell am I doing? Just hard enough to make me thankful it wasn't any harder, that She hadn't knocked me down so I couldn't get up again (or at least not for a very long time). I realized I've been spending far too much time paying attention to the stuff that goes on here, and not enough to what is REALLY important - the world around me, my family and friends, the things I'm good at.

So here's the upshot. First of all, I'm going to go through and strip my friends list. The majority of personal journals will go. There's just too much stuff on there at the moment, and it's time to clean house. A few will stay for various reasons, but some of what's on the list now will go. I'm going back to what I originally came here for - reading and writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and the journals that engage me in that arena. I'll bookmark a few people to check in on from time to time, so we don't lose touch altogether, but commenting is another thing that's going to get cut way down.

Second, this journal will be locked. Once I started posting personal stuff, I was never comfortable with the idea of just anybody reading my LJ. So that's going to stop, and locking it is a lot easier than having to remember whether or not to lock each entry, frankly. I may open an LJ for my fic writing and transfer my fics over there, but since I'm not really doing any writing these days, and my stuff is on my website anyway, that may not happen. Should there be any writing that I want others to read, I'll probably post it on one writing community or another.

That's about it. If some people's feelings get hurt over not being included on my flist, that's really too bad. However, I'm not going to apologize for it. This has been coming for a while, to be honest, and now it's here. And since my words are pretty much meaningless to anyone but me and perhaps a few people I know, it doesn't matter anyway. Besides which, to quote Emma Jacklin, "I don't believe in being sorry. We are what we are."

This post will be left up for a day or two while I go through my LJ and do some deleting and locking, and then it'll be adios. If you've got something to say, feel free to say it. (Flames will be deleted, however, because they waste my time and are boring, to boot.)

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Those of you interested, please read. Those of you not, have a nice day.

Comments

[samena.livejournal.com]

Should you take me off your friendslist and then lock your journal, I will definitely miss reading your entries very much. But I also understand why you are doing this, so naturally there won't be hard feelings on my part. Good luck, whatever you do.