Foma = Harmless Untruths;
Granfalloon = a group of people who outwardly choose or claim to have a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless;
Bokononism = Life
That change has nothing to do with making other people like me, but more so that I can like myself. Generally I'm pretty happy with myself, but at the very core of my being, I'm unsatisfied with everything I do.
I am the living, walking example of a hypocrite and as much as I try to pretend that that doesn't bother me, it does. I think I'm like that because I strive to achieve this idealistic image in my head of what a person should be, but I simply cannot. I have a set of morals and a set of beliefs that I preach and I preach but very rarely do I follow them and it kills me that I do that in the first place.
A hypocrite's hypocrite. Ironic much?
But the point of this post isn't to wallow in self-pity, it isn't to ask the world for pity. It's primarily to remind myself that however hard it is to change, sometimes you just have to.
People are constantly unhappy with who they are and that sort of unhappiness revolves around appearances and just simple stuff. I'm not that kind of a person. However, when I'm faced with who I see in the mirror, it not the outside that bothers me, but the knowledge of the person who dwells behind the face, and I can't deal with that person anymore.
I'm taking it one step at a time. I'm not going to admit the extent of my mistakes and flaws on the internet, but let's just say that this would be a much longer post if I did. I'm gonna strive to be a better person. Correction: I am going to be a better person.
Don't know what the heck it is, but it seems quite interesting.
Apparently it was develop by these two guys and it's supposed to allow you to compare how you view yourself and how other view you in a positive light.
And for the more cynical, like myself, there's Nohari which is the opposite of Johari in that it lists bad traits versus good ones.
I just realized that my background is probably a little bit funky on each different computer. It's currently bothering me, but i'm a little too lazy to change it, so just zoom in/out until you can see both sides of the image in the background until i get around to fixing it.
Blogs. These things are interesting. It's kind of like writing a diary, except that that diary can be viewed by anyone anywhere thus sort of defeating the point of writing it.
Despite the futility, I figured that my brain needs a creative outlet to keep my thoughts from exploding out in random bursts leaving the people I chat with online quite confused and occasionally scared. Therefore I concluded quite simply after a few weeks of debate to create a very stereotypical blog.
I won't really desire to be unique, however, I will quite frequently post things that most sane people find to be completely bizarre, so I guess this blog will be entertaining to some at the very least.
I'm rambling now... I think I'll end this post
PS. Foma and Granfalloons comes from Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Go read it to find out what my blog title means.