Blogging Around: Leanne and Crystal

In Crystal's blog (360: Post-Secret Post-It), she talked about the blog post-secret, and how letting go of your secrets can help no only yourself but others. She also talked about how these secrets changed peoples live and how by letting them go they took their fate into their own hands.

I couldn't agree more with you Crystal, the secrets of others are strangely comforting. Whether they be uplifting, fanciful, life changing, wishes, or funny little anecdotes, they reinforce the fact that you are not the only person to have problems or secrets. The simple ones are usually most comforting, bringing hope and showing that your not the only one to possess hope (even though it feels like that sometimes).
Taking control of your fate is making sure that the things you want to happen have a good chance of happening. Your heart goes out to the person going to the post office because of their determination be happy, and it motivates you to do the same. Even though we may have pretty cushy lives compared to most, we have secrets that contribute to who we are. Even when they are not heard. I think what spurs a person to release their secret is weariness. It's possible to keep a secret locked up for you whole life, but its takes a toll. It's difficult. Sending your secret (or even just saying it) is taking it out of its cage and letting it free... even if no one knows it was your little secret, its out in the open. By freeing our secrets, we become free as well.



In Leanne's Blog (360, Love and other words), she talks about the overuse of the word love. She wonders what we could replace it with though, and how it affects our society in the ways that we use it. She also talks about the non-existence of age barriers for love. She also talks about swears and how they are confusing in their categories. She ends with use words with caution, which I think is a fitting statement.

Leanne, I thought your blog post was well written and brought up some very good points. Even though I agree with you fully about the love thing, I find myself falling into saying it too much because everyone else does. I say it almost without thinking and thats probably a bad thing. I really wish we had different words for different kinds of love. It would be more confusing to learn and understand, but it would make clarification unnecessary and we wouldn't fall into the problem of using love almost as a filler word. I also agreed on the point of how ageless love is. I think there are plenty of adults who don't know what love is, and plenty of children that never will know. Even though these people don't understand love doesn't mean that they don't feel it. You don't need to understand something to have it happen to you, thats why they say that love is unexplainable. You can truly and purely love something for your whole life but never understand exactly how or why.
At first I thought it a bit strange to put swears along with the word love, but it makes sense. The power of a word. I like your categories of nice and mean, it makes so much more sense. Why should we hush away those words, they are just another part of life, even if they aren't socially as nice to talk about as other things. I think the whole point you were trying to get across was that you should be careful what you say or write, think about it before it comes out. I really wish more people did that, or did that more often. Think about what they say will affect themselves and others and if it makes the point they are trying to make. Use words with caution. Its a good rule to live by.