The best thing about blogs
Monday, July 30, 2007 by Dave Winer.
Jim Forbes, a guy I used to hang out with in the 80s, illustrates how, in a moment of vulnerability, we sometimes reveal a truth about ourselves to the rest of the world. 
I have so much to say about this.
We're taught, or at least I was, from an early age, to not show weakness. By that, the teachers meant, don't show anything real. Just be like a TV actor, pretending life is uniform and pleasing, satisfactory, not too joyous or despair-filled. None of those ups and downs please.
Maybe we're evolving beyond that (bullshit).
And maybe blogs are part of that.
Anyway, I had an event in my life something like Jim's, five years ago. I kept a fairly open diary of my recovery, and looking back on it I see that even as I was recovering from hugely invasive surgery, I was stronger in some ways then than I am now.
I find that more than a little disturbing.
But like Jim, I can give myself a pretty good peptalk, and when that fails, a friend sometimes steps in and takes charge.
Sylvia, this Sunday, took a group of us on a hike to the top of a mountain.
When we started I didn't know that's where we were going!
I sure complained a lot, but in the end I made it.
What a sense of accomplishment!
