THIS "STANCE and "DISTANCE"

Notes that I have written on facebook are a wealth of personal beliefs, passions, struggles, and friendship; it all began as a personal outlet, separate from any professional pursuits. Over time, it evolved into a launching point for most of my activities such as student activism and political writings. I have written less about personal matters but more of my poetry in recent years for a variety of reasons – not the slightest of which is lacking when the need to share everything when judgment is all that seems to pour down from the skies.


While I manage to embrace new forms of community through emerging platforms I try to hold inevitable invasiveness at bay. Some people have a propensity to interfere and snoop – so even when you mean well, just anticipate that they will be mean in return. I struggle for transparency, but not so much that I lose everything about myself in the end.


Having played out certain bits of my past personal exploits, I have realized that the fewer details I provide the better. Unavoidably, there is always some dumbass that finds it proper to drudge up times and names past. These are the “people” who keep me from sharing everything. There is always the risk of overexposing a personal pain and suffering, the unintended consequences.


For that reason, and that reason alone, I will keep my private life intentionally off the radar until I am damn well ready to share more. Some people have caught light-hearted glances and have speculate erroneously – to what end? I am not going to open my personal life to social networks anymore.


I regard, as just about every social media outlet, a blog, and twitter and facebook just for sharing information. What does it matter is where or how you share it. It is worthless just to get down to arguing semantics. I will cease to share details about my personal life anymore because it’s my personal choice.


What you see of me, you see, and upon that data, you will shape your own judgments and opinions. Don’t forget, however, that you only see a portion of the person I really am – and it will remain that way for the rest of my life. I need to keep things for myself and my truly loved ones, but I have to keep most of myself at a comfortable distance.