Wants

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  • I want to wait a little while and think about what to say

    I want to wait a little while and think about what to say

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    Just what is my blog about? Where is it now and where is it going? I suppose I could call it a hegira, along the lines of Anne Sexton. But it’s gone beyond my personal life— or so I hope— to be more of a social commentary. I wish for my writing to be that good, and possibly turn some heads around. I never used to consider myself wise enough to make any kind of criticism of my culture, but maybe I’m evolving just as my blog is. So we see that writing is a process of transformation, which Anne Sexton also covered. It is a personal thing, but also a social thing. For, every individual’s life makes sense only in the context of its society… and at the same time, individuals construct society by means of language and writing. Sounds like Karl Marx a bit, but I guess the Marxists have a point.

    https://robgradens.wordpress.com/about
  • I want the life I wanted when I was younger and was taught not to want

    I want the life I wanted when I was younger and was taught not to want

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    I thought I just had trouble focusing, and was just more generally anxious than the next person. But then, I was alone more… and I found myself slowly eliminating hobbies, staying in bed more, becoming such a shell of a person because I was just so.fucking.exhausted from existing every day. After 2 years of hell, you find out what you want in life, how you want to be, the kind of life you really do want to have… and people who tell you to “want what makes you happy” then turn into “you shouldn’t want that, you should want to be on your own”.

    https://cosmicplottwist.blog/2022/10/21/accepting-how-you-are-sucks-sometimes
  • I can write whatever I want, whenever I want

    I can write whatever I want, whenever I want

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    Some days, I have a whole write up in my mind that I want to put somewhere, but I’m too lazy to open my journal. I hope that the words in my mind that keep floating around get to put in clear sentences that won’t make sense to anyone but me. So, yeah, here I am to reclaim my own space. Guess this is no more a travel blog as it was intended to be? Or maybe I will share some travel stories if I start being active.

    https://carryingmemories.wordpress.com/2021/12/17/my-space
  • I don’t feel like me and I’m really trying to find my way back

    I don’t feel like me and I’m really trying to find my way back

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    I mean I know I’m fine and I’ll be fine eventually but this girl is struggling and I don’t know what I want in life nor do I know what I’m doing.

    https://anahislife.wordpress.com/2021/08/04/a-sea-of-lost-thoughts
  • Everywhere Plans for Everybody

    Everywhere Plans for Everybody

    That’s the quintessential motto of each and every pandemic: Everywhere Plans for Everybody

    It’s not normal — not new normal, not old normal, not at all … it’s more God-like.

    Normal is: Somewhere Plans for Somebody.

    In case you’re unaware of this bit of cultural history: It was none other than the Beatles who sang about Nowhere Man … namely, that he had Nowhere Plans for Nobody.

    I think many people treat me (and / or my thoughts) that way regarding my thinking about information , information retrieval, natural language processing, etc. They consider my ideas to be irrelevant to today’s “real world” — #IRL.

    I wrote about this yesterday — see: “We saw with the pandemic that some organizations that struggled with change, and others that changed quickly” (the title is a quote taken from a recent interview with Charlene Li).

    At the end of the post, I speculate about the divergence between my own views and the mainstream views of the masses in the markets. I think perhaps each of these extremes views the other view as “Nowhere Man” views (interesting aside: the Beatles actually sang that Nowhere Man “doesn’t have a point of view”, and also speculated whether “isn’t he a bit like you and me?”).

    So where is this “real world”? Are the markets always right? If so, then how can it be that the markets still have not solved the problem sometimes referred to as the “pandemic”?