Writing is therapy

Being unemployed sucks.  It really does.  You are limited financially to the different things that you can do (either by cost to enter what you want to see or gas to get there) So for me, writing a blog has become a very cheap way for me to alleviate my daily tedium.

After spending a couple of hours trolling the usual websites for new postings, I have very little to do.  What few friends I do have are working (and I wish them continued employment too) and so are unavailable for even the lamest of outings like eating sandwiches on the picnic table near the swimming pool.

But then I discovered that I have a lot of shit I want to get off my chest and a blog seemed like the perfect place to do that.  First, because of the low likelihood of anyone reading this, I can be extremely opinionated.  (Not that I am in real life or anything) Secondly, I could care less what people think about my opinion.  Its just nice to rant like a madwoman for a few moments and get it off my chest as it were.  Lastly, I have an opinion and it matters...ok, it only matters to me but dammit! I'm important too!

I think more people should take up writing.  Can you imaging the reduction in stress if people were able to write about their feelings in a truly honest way? I have a diary that I write in as well.  That's where I put all the really deep, personal stuff.  But I can't help but wonder how much bad behavior would decrease if people had a way to say what they wanted to say without being censored by themselves or by societal standards (like the one about not hitting stupid people)

There is great joy, I think, in memorializing their stupidity either in a personal journal that you can donate to a library after your death for everyone to read or on the internet where nothing EVER disappears.  There was a great line in the movie, A Knights Tale where Geoffrey Chaucer, a character who is a writer, threatens Simon the Summoner and Peter the Pardoner with "undying humiliation" by putting them in his stories.  (Read The Summoner's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale by Chaucer and you will see that is exactly what he did)

I'm sure that I will be able to accommodate that wish.