Observation

[genevievealicia]

Why is it that people rarely write when they are exceptionally happy. I write in my private journal, but not so much here on the net recently. And the journal in my bag is mostly ideas for shows I want to do or pieces of scripts that will eventually filter into one cohesive thing. But here on the net is one big pile of "this is what I did today" or

Comments

[xrachelbagelx]

You must have depressed friends. Most of the people's journals I read are about how they're excited for some upcoming event. I think it depends on the person. Sometimes the only big things in someone's life at the moment are sad ones, neh?

[jessewiegel]

When I'm sad, upset, depressed, or generally pissed off, I need to vent it out. I don't want to really bring anyone else down, but I need to get it off my chest.

When I'm happy, I let people know it by being happy around them.

[genevievealicia]

So either the random sampling of journals that I read today were all sad ones, yet I believe this is a trend that I have seen for a while. Also I spliced it with the list of daily activities, in which case this sight needs to be re-named www.livelog.com. Regardless if one needs to vent or if sad moments resonate louder than happy ones, why is that the case? Do you think that there could be something in us that prevents sharing them from the risk of sound like we're bragging, the distasteful look of "my life is better than yours, nah nah nah booh booh"?

Disclaimer: I do not, nor have I ever claimed to have any idea what I am talking about. Still just wondering for the sake of wondering and for the practice of writing.

[captn_dramatico]

:) I'm happy, and I've posted it on three different websites. But I do see where you're coming from. People post happy stuff, but it does kind of seem to be outweighed by the sad. Maybe that's because we pay more attention to other people's grievances, because we feel like helping them more than petting their egos? That's my theory.

[jessewiegel]

It's no fun to share happiness via the interweb. So you go out to do that. And it's no fun to bring other people down in the real world, so you do it on the interweb.

[xrachelbagelx]

I completely agree.