Skepticism and Rewards

I've just migrated my blog from here to WordPress.

Initially I thought this was a weird choice but actually I'm quite happy with this. It means I no longer need to log in to my many google accounts simultaneously.

That's, of course, what happens when you get a YouTube account, a Gmail account and a BlogSpot account before Google has control over all three. And obviously, they now want you to link everything to one of their accounts. URGH! 

What's even more annoying is that I have an Italian blog (a sister to this one, albeit an elder sister) that I had to migrate from Live Spaces (when Microsoft decided to shut the thing down) and thought Blogger would be a better option. I guess it makes no difference at the end of the day. I don't actually write on the website editors!

Just so you know, on WordPress this blog is under waningmoonrelapse.wordpress.com [opens in new window/tab]. I would actually like to know which you prefer overall. I'm not bothered too much about "oh this one's Google owned, that one's based on Open Source software" but your experience of the blog. 

Another thing to bear in mind is the fact that on here I can edit the HTML directly for free whereas on WordPress I have to pay. 

So, which looks better? Which is easier to read? Which is easier for you to access and comment on? (Good grief! A microscopic red spider's crawling its way across my screen...random... and oh damn, trying to focus on the spider is making me see the individual dots making up my screen! Crazy times!)

And now that I've shown off my sleep-deprived randomness, I shall leave you to the rest of your day/night.

PW )O(

Friendship and getting things off your chest

It’s amazing how much someone can depend on sharing problems and talking when they’ve been involved in a relationship for a long time.

I’ve been in one for over 2 years and hearing that someone upset my partner and that she didn’t tell me through fear that it would hurt me as well as her really upset me last night.

 

But I woke up fine this morning…I thought.

Maybe it’s just a bad day, a day when the energy of the Earth is off balance or something like that, but by mid-morning I was in need of an intravenous endorphin drip – and that made me think…

 

Relationships are a lot like friendships, except for spending more time together as a couple (granted this isn’t always possible in a long-distance relationship).

Friends have a habit of looking out for each other, get along well, can occasionally fall out but can also sort out their differences for the better. Friends are there if you need to talk. They’re there if you need cheering up. Sometimes things don’t go well and all you want to see is a friendly face. Other times all you want to do is have your mind taken off your problems…

I’m just glad that the few people I really can call friends are amazing. I’m selective about who to call “friend”. I’ve been lonely most of my life and been disappointed more times than I care to remember…

All I’ve wanted to do is help people – their problems have always come before my own.

And so here I am, writing a blog, getting things off my chest so that anyone interested can read what I can’t seem to be able to say in person. Maybe it’s why I’ve become someone with such variable emotions…

Here I feel I can write anything I want where people can either judge me or help me out, slag me off or share their own thoughts and experiences. I look forward to reading a few comments. Comments from others really make a blog worthwhile.

Anyhow, here I am.

So sue me for wanting to be a friend you can rely on.

Until next time!

PW )O(

Utopia or no Utopia?

I recently spotted this question on social networking site Diaspora*. At first glance I thought “This guy is stupid.” but actually it allowed me to think of why I don’t really agree with the options given. Here’s the original post:

“On a personal level, would you rather live in a world where everybody was nice to each other, or a world in which everybody conformed to your ideals? (and if your only ideal is that everybody be nice to each other, blessed be, this question is not for you)”

As you can see the obvious comment would be “Go away. This is a false dichotomy. Lol…you’re an idiot.”
It really does sound like a question with two identical answers.

Even after trying to see the subtleties between the two, which I make out to be either everyone nice to each other and living in a Socialist-Utopia (ie. everyone masking their true feelings) or  everyone being nice to me and living in a Utopia created around me (everyone masking their true feelings, bar me - admit it, egocentric ideals in everyone wish that you didn't have to change but everyone else had to change and be nice to you), I can't understand why any reasonable person would want EITHER option.

Society wouldn't advance either way.

Society advances with shared ideals, individuality, small conflicts and the truces that are called afterwards. This is why the world isn't black and white.

From two or more people having different opinions on the same subject, others follow the various opinions based on their own ideas. A common set of ideas is formed in each group (and obviously not everyone approves all ideas) which then tries to win backing from other groups. Where ideas meet secondary groups are formed, where ideas diverge there is division from groups and the cycle is started again.

It's not politics. It's the human way of thinking and forming groups within society. You wouldn't have friends if you didn't share ideals and opinions, but you have disagreements with them when your values differ from theirs.

What are your ideas?
Feel free in the comments to share them or maybe even share what your reply to the post would be.

Blessings to all!
PW )O(

Turn around?

A bit of a cryptic title, I know.

I was just wondering how to classify a change for the better in my life as opposed to something just going right.

My computer died the other week. I played with it too much and messed up the boot labels. I was so fed up, you may remember the previous post. (No? You can always look back at it if you want.)

Just recently I've started chatting to someone who works within my Uni, when I have a minute and she's up for a quick chat, and she puts me in a right cheerful mood! (Thanks Sanja!)

Just the other day I had a right awful day - car had to be jump started, forgot my phone in plain sight in my car, couldn't get any studying done - so I just stopped, decided I needed some time to chill and meditate and only then would I go home. Went up to see her and ask if there was a room where I could do just that.
Honestly, I do find that it's the small things that make me feel better. She asked what was up and gave me a few bits of advice after I finished talking to my spirit guide.

Something seems to be going right again at least. Work is still a right bugger, but at east other things seem to be going right in some way, shape or form.

Now I just wish I had a e few hundred thousand more hair follicles successfully producing hair on my head.

I guess some things you just can't solve like that.

PW )O(