As our world has become increasingly digital, many of us have developed a double life in a sense. Yes, we have our real life and then our online life with facebook, youtube, myspace, twitter, blogger, xanga, break, ign, espn, yahoo, and more. Who we are in person and who we are online can be two completely different things (although I try to keep them as close as possible). I had an idea to write a blog yesterday, but I didn't know what about. Then I asked myself "Why do I even have this blog?" I already have had a blog on xanga for years, so why the heck did I start this one? Was I bored or something?
No, the truth is that my friends told me I should get one. And since I'm all about "fitting in" I decided to try it out. From this I realized that the only reason I really have facebook, myspace, xanga, and even youtube is because my friends who are apparently original were on there first. And they said "Hey Bill, you should get a facebook!" And I said "Okay, sure." From there I looked around my house and realized that about half the video games I own are because my friends bought them and I wanted to play with them so I bought the game as well. Then I realized that most of the music I own is because my friends were interested in it first. My clothes...half of them are shirts I borrowed from friends and never returned.
THE WORST PART IS that my friends are very flaky (no offense if you are reading this). They will be interested in one thing and then move onto the next thing like a week later. Here's a few examples- xanga. I got that blog my senior year of high school because all my friends told me too. Three months later, they never checked theirs. Battlefield 2. Over Christmas break a few friends played that a lot and told me it was awesome. I bought it and by the time I had it installed they were all playing Team Fortress 2. Youtube. For most of 2005-2007, my friends from wow4now made videos a lot and put them up on youtube. I got a youtube account just to comment on their videos. Then I started making videos of my own again (I had in like 2003). It was really fun when we were all making videos at the same time. But they seemed to have lost interest. Now I try to make a video at least every month and wow4now hasn't put out a new video for over half a year. And I have a hard time getting them to be excited enough to actually be in videos with me. Bleh.
Now is all of this bad? Not really, its not like my friends are doing crack or something and bringing me along. But it does show me that I am slightly more of a follower than a leader based on my possessions. And the things I really like all by myself, like disc golf, making videos, being married, lecrae, and fantasy football...most of my friends don't really care about, nor can I convince them to care about these things.
So as you can see, I am mostly an unoriginal person, and the things my friends got me interested in they don't really care about anymore (for the most part), and the things I'm interested in my friends don't care about. I'm sure this blog will be just another example on the long list of things I got into because I'm unoriginal only to see my friends abandon it. Oh well.
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