Self Censorship OnlineThe video is called Would Be Love Story. And after watching it, you can't help but think of how many million times have this kind of thing happened to you. Your self censorship skills is through the roof by now for those who IM every single day. You talk to the girl/guy you are interested in, and you are dying to say something, but you afraid of the ramifications. You are afraid that if you say something, you might give the wrong impression, so you pause before you speak, you think of something witty to say, you try to say something funny, in hopes that you say the right things. And then when the other person replies, you over analyse their replies to the death. "Shit, she took 5 minutes to just say okay. She isn't interested at all." "Oh gawd, he just said okay. I type a whole shitload of stuff, and he just said okay????" Something like that. So the cycle goes on, until something that might have been, like the video, will be nothing. Cause both parties are afraid of making the wrong move, so nothing then happens. Both parties will try and play it cool, and then at the end of the day, they will just regret not saying it, but by then it's much too late. I myself am guilty of this. Umpteen times. I forgot how many times i overanalyse everything, only to realised that i am wasting my braincells on such a inane act. You, you, you and you are probably all guilty of it (no idea who the you are, but you probably know it yourself) So take a chance! take the risk! leap of faith and you may like what you find. Of course, you must exercise some form of caution or restraint. Don't be like me in secondary 2, where i stupidly went to tell my crush that I love her. That was just plain stupid, dumb, desperate, loserish, whatever adjective you can think of that means idiotic, crazy and spastic at the same time. So go get inspired. Probably alot of people did, and probably more than half of them got rejected outright. cause they think life is a fairy tale. Which isnt. But well, that is the fun / unfun of it. Justin ranted at 12:52:00 am on the |