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palfrey at 08:02pm on 31/01/2004
palfrey at 08:02pm on 31/01/2004(This started off as a comment to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chalkcircle's post here, but then I realised I had a lot I wanted to say on my journal, and so it's here)
NB: This is me going over old ground in a way, change is ongoing, but I want to talk about this right now, so I am.
Deciding on whether to make things friends only is a pretty tricky thing. I never wanted to do it before, mostly because I knew who read it and who didn't, and then that got expanded when I wrote something that was intended for one audience, but someone felt would be of interest to someone mentioned in there, and my audience gained a few people. In each case, I do/don't write some things because I know roughly who reads it, and so I didn't particually feel like pissing off certain people. Even now there are certain people who I don't want to know about all of this (parents and workmates for starters). But, excepting these small lists of ppl (all of whom I know roughly how I'd cope with them finding this), I currently share vast chunks of my life on here.
I've somehow managed (thru this, and changes I've made due to various things in this past year) to gain a reputation for being remarkably open with my life. This is a *major* change in my life, one of many that I've made over the last few years. The scariest bit about all of this is that I'm still changing, possibly radically. I don't know where this is going to go, I'm not quite sure where it's going to go, and lot of it will depend on everyone else. Depends heavily on who I meet, and my interactions with them.
One thing at least comforts me: I can still communicate with most of the ppl back in London. I've changed so much since I was with them, but there's still enough for us to talk. If this holds for them, then hopefully it will hold for at least most of the Bristol ppl that I'm physically so far away from now. LJ/various IM systems means I still feel like I'm connected, which helps. We're distributed now, but in a way we're still together.
This has been brought to you bypalfrey's sense of continuity identity
chalkcircle's post here, but then I realised I had a lot I wanted to say on my journal, and so it's here)NB: This is me going over old ground in a way, change is ongoing, but I want to talk about this right now, so I am.
Deciding on whether to make things friends only is a pretty tricky thing. I never wanted to do it before, mostly because I knew who read it and who didn't, and then that got expanded when I wrote something that was intended for one audience, but someone felt would be of interest to someone mentioned in there, and my audience gained a few people. In each case, I do/don't write some things because I know roughly who reads it, and so I didn't particually feel like pissing off certain people. Even now there are certain people who I don't want to know about all of this (parents and workmates for starters). But, excepting these small lists of ppl (all of whom I know roughly how I'd cope with them finding this), I currently share vast chunks of my life on here.
I've somehow managed (thru this, and changes I've made due to various things in this past year) to gain a reputation for being remarkably open with my life. This is a *major* change in my life, one of many that I've made over the last few years. The scariest bit about all of this is that I'm still changing, possibly radically. I don't know where this is going to go, I'm not quite sure where it's going to go, and lot of it will depend on everyone else. Depends heavily on who I meet, and my interactions with them.
One thing at least comforts me: I can still communicate with most of the ppl back in London. I've changed so much since I was with them, but there's still enough for us to talk. If this holds for them, then hopefully it will hold for at least most of the Bristol ppl that I'm physically so far away from now. LJ/various IM systems means I still feel like I'm connected, which helps. We're distributed now, but in a way we're still together.
This has been brought to you by
palfrey's sense of continuity identity
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