Goodbye OD, Hello Bloop

07/30/2014

So, like a lot of people, I recently went back to Open Diary because the urge to write came back upon me after a few months of not wanting to and low and behold I find that is, alas, no more. So after much googling and forum searching I find a couple of links and after a cursory glance around each one I settled on this one.

I'm not entirely angry over the closure of OD more...disappointed. OD was that one friend you didn't have to text all the time. It was just always there. Maybe a little taken for granted but you were always reassured in the knowledge it would always be there willing to accept whatever problem/idea/musing you felt like extruding upon your own little corner of the internet. I never gave it much thought really in my less pensive moments I just knew it was there...until it wasn't anymore.

I had my mission statement, my regular noters, my ideas my life written there for the world wide web to see and while I was proud of most the entries (I liked to give them a structure, a narrative and sometimes even a conclusion) there were those that would cause me to cringe I'm sure if I was to read them back now with the a speech bubble coming out of my head reading"What the Hell Was I Thinking"

But such is the nature of life, things come and things go and we are left to adapt, overcome or improvise with what we have left.
That being said perhaps its not always a bad thing. Change I mean. We get comfortable for too long and we can fall into a rut. Well I can anyway. I've very often lived in fear of change. I was quite content in my happy hive of homeostasis. Then change happened and like so many things it wasn't a big change right away. It was a pebble running down the hill that knocked a stone that knocked a boulder...you see where I'm going with this metaphor... and now before I really realise it I'm purchased teetering at the top of my own personal cliff face ready (and willing) to take the plunge into a paradigm shifting change all because of that small almost insignificant pebble.

Anyway tangent aside I'm happy to start a new diary/journal/whateveryouwanttocallit here. The main reason I chose this over the others is because it reminds me a lot of OD. So hopefully, at least for a while, this will be the new home of musings.

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