December 29, 2005

• I first started xanga because of girls . That’s that. But then, that plan backfired on me.

  Now, I am fascinated reading insightful blogs, especially by people I am prejudiced against.

  When I blog, I put a lot of thought into it and try to reach out and
  touch people – really get them questioning and thinking about – you
  know, “ISSUES”

  …cuz the status quo sucks and complacency kills.

  For me, xanga is ministry.

  Xanga is like what people do in their cars. We all feel safe in the
  confines of our cars – we can sleep, we can scratch liberally, pick our
  nose, dance and sing as hard and loud as we want, change in and out of
  clothes, be a slob… anything. The weird thing is, xanga, like our
  cars (surrounded by windows) are transparent and are very public
  places. Xanga is either for the unashamed or for the insecure.

  This aspect of xanga and blogging makes it all very real and genuine.

  Story: I stumbled across an anorexic girl’s xanga. Reading through
  her entries on self-deprecation, criticisms on the superficilaity of
  society, and her twisted vision of beauty, I could not help crying. I
  wanted to reach out, hold her and tell her that God loves her, no
  matter what. Reading that girl’s blog and many other like it,
  especially that of my friends, has made me redeem my xanga.

  As I read more and more blogs on people’s struggle to find purpose
  in their lives and their misery, and discover new blog rings on
  “anorexics unite!”, “fuck the world”, “white supremacists rule the
  world”, I cannot bear to stand by and not dedicate my xanga in
  providing HOPE to a lost, confused and hopeless world.
  

  its_joeyun 12.29.2005

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