Some anxieties

1 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-13 18:52

Last month, I was helping some guys set up an anime stall for a fair at the university. I got really in to the decoration and arranging everything in just the right way. Then I remembered that my own bedroom is an undecorated mess. My satisfaction must have been a shallow, outward-facing lie. How am I allowed to enjoy creating order here when my own quarters are in chaos?

A few weeks later, I went along to a talk about 20th century Chinese literature and politics, since the tickets were free. I really enjoyed it. I felt like I was learning a lot. Then I realised that I didn't even know what the decade the Cultural Revolution happened in. I must have been lying to myself again. What did it mean to understand so many interesting details of a story without even knowing the basic outline?

But if I listened to these feelings and let them control me, where would I end up? Ignorance does not make learning sinful. Chaos does not render beauty a lie.

2 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-13 19:40

Quoted by: >>3

these anxieties are invitations to progress.
"oh no my own space is a mess and undecorated" so clean it up and decorate! make it a fun weekend!
same with the Chinese culture revolution thing, you know a little and are interested in more, that's great. it's an opportunity, not a condemnation.

3 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-13 21:19

>>2
I was starting to tidy my room when I opened this thread, but the anxiety is usually a barrier to getting stuff done. I'm posting about it because I need get over it :)

4 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-14 01:49

Quoted by: >>5

Just start a blog

5 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-14 03:06

Quoted by: >>6

>>4
Nobody reads blogs. I'd prefer to see more people post their stuff in places like this so I can actually see it without going out of my way.

6 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-14 16:00

Quoted by: >>7

>>5
Use rss to follow people on their websites so you don't have to go out of your way. (sage for off topic)

7 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-14 21:15

Quoted by: >>9

>>6
sadly the current blogging scene is all people manually updating their le epic static neocities site.

8 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-14 21:20

hold on... Neocities does RSS!?!?!?

9 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-14 23:44

Quoted by: >>10

>>7
You can host an rss xml on neocities no problem.

10 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-15 02:38

Quoted by: >>11

>>9
manually typing in my rss xml the static web is wonderful : )

11 Name: Anonymous 2024-10-15 05:16

>>10
I am really tempted to make a stupid simple syndication format, just a link, time+date, title, and brief blurb
something any moron could do by hand without effort, and would be easy enough to convert to actual RSS

... probably should make another thread about RSS and the lot...

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