This diary is not sad and empty! (as the message displayed on this page implied before posting this) I'm sure it can get a little sad from time to time, but damn right it shall not be empty, deal? :)

I must admit, I've always been more of a http://www.livejournal.com -guy, mostly because of the wonderful overview of the recent posts of all my buds. Getting home after long days of hard work, LiveJournal always kept me in the loop of all the stuff going on in a large part of my group of friends. From the heavy stuff as troubles in their relationships, to simple reviews of the new videogames they were playing, and all sorts of tiny stories about their daily life; wherever I was on this globe (I was travelling quite a bit for work), there was always a little bit of home on that page. And I used to be writing quite a lot there myself as well, using the journal to share thoughts I was more inclined to write down than speak of out loud, but still felt my friends should know about.

But at some point, I didn't feel like writing down too many of my own ramblings anymore, as more and more people I knew started using livejournal, and as such had access to ... well... me. I fled livejournal, sort of, in search of a more 'quiet' spot, though I never really stopped refreshing the bookmark of my friends overview. I tried various things, ranging from my own nicknamed weblog (which soon was even found by my relatives, commenting on my life and how I looked at it - not quite what I had in mind) to just writing word documents in a secret folder on my hard disk.

While the latter did provide me with plenty of privacy and safety, contradictive as I personally am, the idea of nobody but myself ever being able to read whatever I'd write down in there did not motivate me at all. I guess having to mind my words even just a little bit makes me actually review my thoughts better, than just throwing them uncensored into a locked file. Writing without thinking has its purpose as well, but not one that suits me too often.

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Enter elftown. A new place, with basically no one I know yet (one exception ;)). I don't see many of my friends ever visiting this place, as they're not really into fantasy the way I am, but who knows who might press that 'random user' button and by pure chance reach my little elftown house and diary page. Maybe it's a nice balance between privacy and reviewing posts for 'the public' (however small or in reality nonexistent). It might motivate me to start writing again, as it already did the last 30 minutes. Though the risk will always be that I'd meet a lot of new people here, raising the amount of censorship I'd have to use while writing again, and eventually forcing me to move off once more.

Rest assured that I'd keep reading about your lives nonetheless, presuming that this situation would ever occur. Presuming I'd continue rambling at all.

This diary, at least, is neither sad, nor empty as of now. ;)