In my own tunnel

I took a rather long hiatus from blogging, even though I kept up with reading most of your blogs and added many more subscriptions. I initially stopped blogging for several reasons, from grad school overwork, to a self-imposed isolation from online social networking, to concerns I was having in maintaining privacy/anonymity.

But after a brief stint of commenting anonymously, I've had enough of the invisibility cloak. Even though it's fun to fling snowballs at the Slytherins without having to take responsibility for your point of view, the cloak is surprisingly difficult to keep on.

More importantly, being able to speak freely is liberating at first- but then you start publicizing faults and ridicule that you might have had the dignity to keep to yourself in the past. The freer you are to speak about something, the less need there is for cognitive reframing. Granted this can be constructive in some situations, but training yourself to think less before saying/publishing something negative is truly backward and becomes habit sooner than you know it. If the end result is mocking a person or community, you're responsible for putting that thought into the end users' minds whether or not you have a cool screen name issuing it. I was starting to hate myself for the things I even thought of saying.

Anyway, it seems like the current events and dating genres have taken over the blogosphere and I don't hear enough about anything else. These things were never my focus, so I'm happy to return in my little tunnel of random (hopefully interesting or even educational) thoughts to share now and then. The tunnel of Corti.

PS: Thank you Yedid Nefesh for the sweet nudge!