So I have taken up writing again.
It is a bit funny to me because I feel somewhat reactionary in our fast-paced, bite-sized, blogging world. I think I am still stuck in the late 90s when I reveled in having and maintaining a personal homepage. Basically, that is what I am doing here for the most part. . . sharing my innocuous thoughts for myself and the idle few who are curious.
In keeping with my “this is not a blog” mentality, I had disabled the comments field on my blogs until very recently. I find this obscure quasi-mock-celebrity very weird. For many years, people followed my writing closely and it was a rather intimate communal space specially when Blue Skies served as my therapeutic stomping ground.
Therefore, a few people have left comments which I decided not to approve because for all intents and purposes, this is my quiet space on the web and when people want to spout vitriol to start with, then I am under no obligation to provide a forum for such opinion and views. Then, I receive email messages telling me off personally and so on and so forth.
Nowadays, free speech has become such a loaded four letter word. People think that because we live in a relatively free society, then their thoughts and feelings ought to be accepted, shared, and acknowledged without any discrimination. . . anything short of that is grounds for angry flaming. What a ridiculous thought. . . and this is not even on my more theme focused Armenian blog. . . where you can imagine what sort of free speech I may be impeding.
I just find it exhaustive to open myself up to people I may not even know or haven’t related to in years, people that want to impose their arbitrary opinions in such a disrespectful way on my personal space. As it is, this is my personal haven and there is a reason it is mostly hidden. So, find another soapbox to play with or play nice, people.
Posted by Saro 