A minha vida num Psi...

Março 02 2011

-Onde estás?

-Neste momento sou Nisence.

-Que horas são?

-São trinta para as quatro.

-Medes o tempo para o futuro.

-É no futuro que me encontro, que me perco, que sinto, que me projecto...

-Projeta-te em mim que sou teu!

 

Publicado por Larissa às 15:42

Good to hear from you, Lara. You had me worried there for a while. Silences leave too much room for speculation.

So, you're writing a thesis. That is a demanding challenge but a very rewarding one as well, when you feel you're doing progress. You do not settle for a "comfort zone", do you? I wish you good work on that and on everything else you've got going.

The idea of "activating your ego" made me smile. Yes, I suppose I did just that by commenting and displaying interest in your blog's content. I'll tell you sometime how it triggered my interest.

Do I write? Some bits and pieces. But I really have very little time available and being able to do it ends up being a matter of conjugating discipline, organization and inspiration. Easy, right? Still I am definitely much more a reader than I am a writer (although it may be said that reading often triggers a written response in me.)

The idea of commenting on a couple of blogs is quite recent. Blogs are a huge phenomena and I am interested in people's motivations for keeping them and investing more or less in them as I suspect it has to do with a lot more than enjoying writing or having available time for it or not. It also does not seem to have anything to do with feeling one masters writing. Such mastering may or may not be present and more often than not, it isn't....and no one feels constricted by that. In fact, it seems like the ultimate democratization of writing brought on by personal computers and the web.

You wrote that you like to think and write that you miss doing that. I hear you but we both know you do not need a blog for that. Why associate the blog with that activity, then? To be sure, a text only comes alive whenever it is read, when it finds a recipient, when it generates some form of exchange. And the idea of sharing one's thoughts and writings certainly is inherent to blogs. But how is it potentially more rewarding than having a once a month encounter in which you and friends or new people you get to know along the way share such things? Is it that no matter whom in the world is a potential viewer (even if the language used always restricts this number)? Are people driven by the will to experiment with the interest and approval/disapproval they generate in a much larger group, a group that may easily include people they do not know in any way? In what proportion do the "number of views"/ amount of feedback/ quality of feedback matter here?

You are writing a thesis. A job well done presupposes an inquisitive mind. I'm certain you have given some thought to both starting and ending your blog, how it went, etc. I'd love to hear you on that but meaningful exchange may be hard over a blog. What you could easily say in a "esplanada" over a coffee, takes many lines in writing. Time, that is. Some nuances are lost, others introduced...

Be sure to give me a signal when you post something. As you know, when you respond to my comments I receive an email...But not when you post something new. So say something, unless you really want me to come here often and boost your number of views, just for the sake of it. ;-) After all, who's to say when a blog is definitely over?

Again, I wish you good work.

Peter
Peter Townsend a 5 de Maio de 2011 às 14:28

O modo como eu vejo o mundo... Tão condicionado como o de qualquer outra pessoa.
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