The Unbearable Lightness of Blogging
“The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public…The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes…Then there is the third category, the category of who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love…And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present.”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Via the comments on a Bitch Ph.D. post comes this must-read from The Nonist on “Blog Depression”:
I would say something like “it would be funny if it didn’t hit so close to home,” but the fact is that it’s funny because it hits so close to home.
I don’t know how non-bloggers will react to it, but I’m confident that it will strike a very deep chord in the neurotic brain center of every blogger who reads it. The spouses and partners of bloggers will probably laugh the hardest — once, that is, they’ve stopped yelling, “isn’t that what I’ve been trying to tell you for the last ten months?!”
