Feeling burned out...

[alexpgp]

Being here in Houston, in an environment where I'm basically shuttling between home - where I sleep during the day - and work, I find it's way too easy to immerse myself in LiveJournaling. If I'm not writing something, I seem to be wandering about this huge community, checking the known haunts (my friends) as well as some random journals. I'm commenting more, too.

Per se, there's nothing wrong with that. But I'm feeling a bit burnt out with all the posts and comments. I notice I'm pouring more effort into some of my recent thoughts, and there is a certain strident tone in some of them that I don't particularly like. As I look at them, I wonder: At some future date, looking back on the posts of the past week, will I be better able to understand myself, where I was, what I was thinking?

With my eyeballs locked onto one computer screen or another over the past week, often looking at LJ, I feel a little the way I imagine an addict must feel. I feel a need to back off.

Or maybe I'm just feeling the oh-dark-thirty blues.

Cheers...

Comments

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

This isn't the first cyber community I have been involved in. I eventually wander off and the consideration you reference is the reason. In the end what difference does it make? No matter how much I like to hear myself talk, why bother?

[bookfoole.livejournal.com]

"At some future date, looking back on the posts of the past week, will I be better able to understand myself, where I was, what I was thinking?"

I wonder about that too --I guess I look at it as a record of my day-to-day activities for this period of time. It may be more, but that's the minimum. I'm not sure if I'll continue it, but I don't think I'll ever regret the time I put in.