It's 1:30 in the morning, I'm wired, I'm pissed off, and I'm trying to figure out how the Sun Belt conference lets people ref games when they're blind. So it's time for a cuddly metadiary to blow off some steam.
The muse this time around comes in DHinMI's current diary Which Long-Lost Kosmopolitans Do you Miss? I found myself amazed at the number of respected people who had come and gone, some of which I was familiar with, and some, as a newbie, I've never heard of.
So here's my question: with so many having ridden off into the sunset, what keeps you coming back?
Me, I'm here for a variety of reasons. I love the bad jokes that have been made a thousand times, and I love being number 1001 to make them. I love that we're all just a little bit nutty, and that I can find an argument on everything from environmental policy to whether or not Freddie Prinze jr. is an idiot.
I come back for the writers that make me want to burn everything I've ever put to paper, and for a chance to get my ego stroked by pretending anything I write is actually worth a good damn.
I'm here because no matter what issue you pick, I can find 20 people who agree with me passionately, and 20 people who disagree with me passionately. And all of them will force me to reconsider my conceptions and notions and beliefs.
And oh yeah, I have lots of free time and schoolwork sucks.
So why are you still here? Are you here to worship at the altar of Armando? Or are you here to pour blood on the altar of Armando? Are you here to figure out who Meteor Blades became so evolved, or are you here to get down in the mud and slug it out with the rest of us neanderthals? Are you here for the policy? The organizing? The electoral info? The community? The pie?
Are you here because you feel the world is going to hell in a handbasket, or because you can't help but salivate over the world you think we have a chance to create? There's nothing really tangible in this whole blogging thing for most of us. We're not getting paid. We're not getting notoriety. And we're giving up our own time and energy for the chance to talk about ways to give up more of our own time and energy. So what keeps you doing it?