Topic: A Sabbatical (to or from) Yourself?
Beachfarmer's photo
Sun 08/12/07 01:28 AM
Senses are heightened in this tin can we call a chat room.

The "relative" anonymity possibly allows us to speak more freely about certain things......or......possibly makes us hyper aware of how exactly what we say could be taken out of context.


Do you find yourself "exaggerated" here?

Do you find yourself any more or less "yourself" than in physical public?

ajhagena's photo
Sun 08/12/07 01:30 AM
I've been posting on internet forums long enough so that I'm as much myself on them as I am on them.

If a bit less reserved.

Beachfarmer's photo
Sun 08/12/07 01:44 AM
I'm not that shy in person, but I find I can recognize and organize my thoughts a lot better if I write them down

or

bounce them off others in a place such as this

no photo
Sun 08/12/07 05:00 AM
Joel......you've met me....lol



i am just as bl8ant in person as i am in here!!!

correct?

i have no secrets...and i am SO COMPLETELY FULL OF MYSELF

i really enjoy my irreverence.... if i took everything very seriously , i could not do what i do!!! and then where would all my people be?noway bigsmile bigsmile bigsmile bigsmile

Greyhound's photo
Sun 08/12/07 05:11 AM
The way I am on here is the way I am in person.


<<<<<<<<<bigsmile

Beachfarmer's photo
Sun 08/12/07 05:28 AM
I guess to be totally honest (with myself), here in the can is "where" I come to sound off a bit, so the more rambunctious side shows up more often than the introspective (obviously).

I think "I" perhaps exaggerate a "bit" in here, but "here" seems to be the place to invoke conversations, that I might not at the dinner table.

I think it would be fair and honest to say I am perhaps a little more outspoken "here".

transientmind's photo
Sun 08/12/07 05:32 AM
I think being online has opened me up... one life bled into the other.

Beachfarmer's photo
Sun 08/12/07 05:50 AM
a bit more outspoken in physical public as a result?

transientmind's photo
Sun 08/12/07 06:00 AM
Yeah, more confident meeting people in person and sharing unpopular opinions...cuz now I don't care if people like them or not, life goes on.

My brother just looked over my shoulder and agreed:-/

MsTeddyBear2u's photo
Sun 08/12/07 06:00 AM
I am pretty much the same here as in public...
I believe the internet has opened me up more though- to intereact with people more. I find myself intereacting more here and out there in the world too... :smile:
Before I was much more shy- than I am now...

lionsbrew's photo
Sun 08/12/07 06:03 AM
im the same person no matter were i am...work,home,online ect. i really like who i amlaugh laugh

no photo
Sun 08/12/07 12:45 PM
I am more open here, mainly because "real life" rarely gives me an opportunity to have the same sorts of discussions as what we have in these forums....

There is no one to talk to, where I live, other than the occasional cow or pig on the side of the road, and they care little for my observations on tape dispensers....


MissBehaving's photo
Sun 08/12/07 12:47 PM

I am just as inconsequential in real life, yes.

laugh :tongue: :wink:

Puffins1958's photo
Sun 08/12/07 12:50 PM
Beach...

I was going to say, I was myself here. BUT, I actuality, I find myself BRAVER here....more open.

laugh happy laugh

Karensmiles's photo
Sun 08/12/07 12:53 PM
I am more reserved online then in person.. I worry that when I truely speak my mind people would interpret it wrong because they may read it with different emotional context then what was intended.flowerforyou

no photo
Mon 08/13/07 01:17 AM
Karen...lol


that will pass....i think it comes with old age hahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa


laugh laugh laugh laugh :wink:

passionart's photo
Mon 08/13/07 07:29 AM
I find myself being more open with the real world.

ArtGurl's photo
Mon 08/13/07 10:42 AM
Serious, contemplative, philosophical, opinionated, playful, goofball .... uhhh pretty much the same as real life


I have been finding a nice group of like-minds online so the discussions have been wonderful and varied. Moreso than in real life lately.

I am learning so much and the mirrors are awesome.

flowerforyou

creationsfire's photo
Mon 08/13/07 11:08 AM
Still learning........