LJ Idol: The Hardest Pill to Swallow
“The Hard Truths That I Have Learned, During My Time On Livejournal, About Myself and How I Interact With People”
I think that this is o ne of the best topics. Especially since I’ve been on livejournal for going on six years now. April 29, 2001. 3500+ Entries. Amazing isn’t it? I started off with a few talker friends on my list, the ones who brought me to livejournal in the first place. I swore then that I wouldn’t get sucked in and at the time, I didn’t. I was in the midst of relationship problems, so I used it as a place to release frustrations and deal with problems. As time went by and I had moved across country, I lost touch with my friends. I had limited internet access, and everyone else was around when I couldn’t be. It sucked, but I used livejournal as a means to keep up with what was going on.
Things have changed since that time, I’ve reconnected with school friends, I’ve made new friends, reconnected with old friends that I’d thought I lost forever and unfortunately, lost friends as well. But I think the hardest thing has been realizing that livejournal is much like being in high school with it’s cliques, it’s outsiders and drama. It’s a popularity contest, even though many of us don’t realize it or participate. It’s a bunch of bullies, even though we don’t try.
But most of all, there are still the true friends, the friends that will be here when the smoke settles, that will be there to say, “Hey it’s okay, we love you.” The friends that will understand that you’re not perfect, that will love you despite it all. Livejournal is like life, and that is the hardest truth of them all.
