Slippers

- Honesty is a curse. Looking down the list of weblogs;

I see people who are honest to their readers. They say how they are coping with life's endless challenges and problems. These blogs are about as enjoyable to read as a someone else's diary. Oh yes they're interesting alright, but they make you feel uncomfortable. No one wants to be lumbered with someone else's troubles or problems.

I see people who aren't honest to their readers. They try to be witty, or maybe they claim to have numerous run-ins with the law alongside their 'wacky' mates on the saturday night. Once a week, and you may have short-term entertaining reading, although presumably not in the same way as the good author intended.

I see people who come up with ideas along the lines of the one above (the Honesty is a curse). They are marked with the pleading of a chained soul. An individual who feels that they can set the world to rights, and that by publishing their thoughts in a Weblog is as good a way as any in starting it. The fact is, if they have to stoop so low to the internet, they wouldn't stand a chance when the big bad world caught up with them.

I see people who can write well. In one sense these are my favourites. The people who use their jolly blog space to entertain people in refreshing and non-commital way. In another sense they upset me. Why do they waste their time writing blogs?

Honesty doesn't pay.
sli 6:51 PM