strong feelings: the message

I'm not against it really... I don't think I have any reasons to be anyway. I understand that it's important. I don't think that it's a bad thing. And really, people would probably think it ridiculous if you didn't have it. Try as hard as you can not to, but it is inevitable, it will ALWAYS happen. I might be out on a limb here but, I hypothesize that the harder you try to prevent it the more it happens. The most interesting thing about it is that when you are trying, other people don't always see it the way you intended.

I'm not afraid of being judged. I embrace criticism. Criticism makes you better if you handle it the right way. I'm not lazy either; I mean it's not that I don't want to have to think about doing it because it's too hard. Sometimes I think quite deep into it, probably more than is intended. I feel like a psychologist sometimes. "So, How does that make you feel?"

SO, why then must everything, that is artistically created, contain and convey a message to the viewer, listener or in some cases, the one interacting with the creation. In fact, I might as well not be talking about artistic "expression" exclusively, but life as you know it. All of your actions and words and all of the fruits of you labor convey your message. People are reading that message like it's coming out of a book, whether they are conscious of the act or not. Did you ever think about that?

I for one, just to defy this principle, would like to create something that doesn't have a message or meaning. But no matter what I do, it will always mean something to someone else and therefore they have received a message that I have unintentionally created. This would still happen even if I created nothing. Go figure.

This is the tricky thing though: When you decide to intentionally create a message, the one on the receiving end of the message isn't always going to receive what you gave them. It's not your fault, they have a different brain and that affects how they receive and react to your message. You have to learn to be okay with that if you’re not already. I mean, I edited this post a whole bunch of times just to be sure it says exactly what I mean, but you may still not see it the way intended.

This is my message to you: receive it however you like.

and on a final note, i sometimes intentionally do not capitalize letters in a title or sentence that should be, simply because i feel like that it brings the situation down to earth and into a humbled state of being. in a way it’s just a method of being informal so that things can seem more friendly. Only, I think what people take from that action, is probably that I’m just lazy and didn’t bother to reach my pinky finger over and hold it there for a second while my other finger Types a letter. Or they think it’s because I’m just too used to Microsoft Word doing It for me. But that is not the case unless I’m talking on AOL or MSN.