anonymous

[fmephisto]

It's too bad that one must be logged in to LJ in order to send text messages to people's telephone. This evening I had a powerful urge to send an anonymous message to someone I came across on here, but who I don't know at all, and being identified when sending the message would have essentially ruined the point

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[jwall]

I find anonymous action to be very therapeutic. If you have nothing to gain and no threat of consequences, you are never at risk of second-guessing your motives or left wishing you had done it "some other way".

Even if you can construct some standards by which you can measure your actions against and DO decide you have in fact "failed", no one will know it but yourself, and you are free to try again without criticism.

But then again that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong.

[beautifulpyre]

Keeping that in mind, I think I'll change the permissions on my LJ text message function.

[beautifulpyre]

I thought maybe it was, and I would have loved it. I'm very big on those kinds of things, glamourbombing, rainbowdirting and such.

[unskinnybop2]

wow fred, you just totally inspired me! i'm going to make it my goal today to do something nice and anonymous for someone. thanks!

[dankamongmen]

this was a fine read, but i've got to say that SICNH would scare the hell out of me, were it left anonymously in my locker.

then again, the image of an excited, merry face crumbling into nebulous terror is a similarly powerful one, and that schadenfreude fits in well with the anger and sense of failure i generally feel when grooving along to track 5. no enemy is more frightful than that which cannot be named. with but one thing left, i'm starting to scare myself.