Renne
War Child
Does anyone else ever suffer from this?
You know, when you go to reply to someone's thread/post/comment or journal/blog entry, and you suddenly think "What am I doing? Why am I saying this? Why do I think they care? I bet they all go 'Oh noes, [username] is posting again, I wish s/he/it would just STFU'!" and of course, by now you're so overcome with paranoia you delete what you've written and close the window/tab, thinking that yes, it probably was for the best that you didn't post.
Or then there is angsting over actually clicking to post. You've crafted your words to the best of your ability, or maybe you haven't. Maybe they're just throwaway words put together in a pleasing pattern. But either way you're ready - theoretically - to post them. You're previewed them half a dozen times, sure that you've finally got what you want to say down. Your mouse cursor hovers over the 'submit reply' or 'post' button, and suddenly you're angsting about what the hell you think you're doing, as if anything you might say would contribute to the discussion! And so you don't post them, because really, you think, who cares apart from you?
And then you do post, and you cringe and hate it and wish that you could or would delete it, or maybe that you hadn't even posted in the first place, because you know people are going to think you're an idiot. Or something like that.
I know it happens to me a lot. Probably part of the reason why I lurked for as long as I did before I even registered. Mmm... paranoia.
And even now I'm angsting over whether or not I should post this, because I am just that predictable.
You know, when you go to reply to someone's thread/post/comment or journal/blog entry, and you suddenly think "What am I doing? Why am I saying this? Why do I think they care? I bet they all go 'Oh noes, [username] is posting again, I wish s/he/it would just STFU'!" and of course, by now you're so overcome with paranoia you delete what you've written and close the window/tab, thinking that yes, it probably was for the best that you didn't post.
Or then there is angsting over actually clicking to post. You've crafted your words to the best of your ability, or maybe you haven't. Maybe they're just throwaway words put together in a pleasing pattern. But either way you're ready - theoretically - to post them. You're previewed them half a dozen times, sure that you've finally got what you want to say down. Your mouse cursor hovers over the 'submit reply' or 'post' button, and suddenly you're angsting about what the hell you think you're doing, as if anything you might say would contribute to the discussion! And so you don't post them, because really, you think, who cares apart from you?
And then you do post, and you cringe and hate it and wish that you could or would delete it, or maybe that you hadn't even posted in the first place, because you know people are going to think you're an idiot. Or something like that.
I know it happens to me a lot. Probably part of the reason why I lurked for as long as I did before I even registered. Mmm... paranoia.
And even now I'm angsting over whether or not I should post this, because I am just that predictable.
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