Tag: runesofthedead

  • Well, I've always wondered in which age gap you fall? Your knowledge is rich and you express yourself in a lucid way, it's something which I've admired from day one and I can't help asking from which sources your gather all this information? Are you a reader, and if so then which sort of books do you prefer? And if I may say so I think you will make a good life coach, you certainly possess all the qualities which one should have to pursue that field.

    I guess I can’t avoid this question forever. 🙂 So at the risk of losing 90% of my followers, I’m just over 40. 

    Thanks for the kind words. I’m actually not an avid reader at all. If I do read, it’s usually non-fiction. I started reading Muhammed Asad’s Road to Mecca a few weeks ago, even though I bought it a few months ago, and I only finished about 20 pages so far. 

    All my views are really based on personal experience and very little else. I’ve always been at odds with mainstream views since I was a kid, and I guess it rightfully earned me the ‘titles’ that are not so complimentary because I can understand why people would see me as pompous, arrogant, aloof, condescending, and so much more. I’ve actually been called all that and more directly by family, friends and strangers alike. 

    But trying to be better than others is never what drives me. So I don’t pay much attention to such criticisms unless it’s accompanied by a seemingly sincere attempt to quantify it, in which case I’ll consider it and correct my views/actions if needed. 

  • Question – To Blog or Reblog?

    runesofthedead replied to your post: runesofthedead answered your question: I think…

    Well I follow some prose blogs,I haven’t found any blog which doesn’t include reblogs yet but I’ll look through my dash and let you know 🙂 Also I have been meaning to ask do you have a degree in language? Your writing is so eloquent and refined.

    I really don’t mind the reblogs. It’s the chronic reblogger that tends to annoy me because that clutters up my dash to a point where I sometimes had to literally go through about 5 or 6 pages just to get to the content of the other blogs that I follow. 

    Thanks for the compliment, but to answer your question, I actually haven’t even finished high school, let alone completed any tertiary studies. So everything I know is largely based on life/work experience, and hardly anything through formal study. Hence my aversion to academics. 🙂

  • Question – To Blog or Reblog?

    runesofthedead answered your question: I think I’ve figured it out. The reason why so…

    Oh wow, same here, of course I could never express it like you.Perhaps you could try branching out by interacting w/bloggers such as yourself

    You know of others that are cynical and jaded like me? 🙂 Seriously though, in the time I’ve been on Tumblr, I haven’t really come across many bloggers that seem to share a similar interest to my own in personal expression. Most are pretty focused on specific fields of interest, but hardly anyone just writes about their life. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places, but the few that I have come across that share some similarities I already follow. 

    I guess my rant was about some people that I have unfollowed over recent months because they used to flood my dashboard with reblogs to the point that it made it difficult for me to catch up with the real and original content that I enjoy. I don’t mind reblogs from time to time, or even a daily dose of reblogs, but within reason. When it goes beyond 20 or 30 or more for a single blogger, then I tune out! 🙂

  • To Blog, or Reblog?

    cynicallyjaded:

    Seriously considering becoming a re-blogger. No one appreciates original material any longer. People mostly like things only if they see other people liking things, and the number of people that like originality rather than fads are few and far between.

    I agree with all the comments, and I appreciate the compliments, but I guess deep down inside, every single one of us has a hint of attention-whoring that we can’t always dismiss, right? Seriously though, like someone once told me something along the lines of ‘words flow easier if there are hearts that are willingly receiving them’, posting on Tumblr, no matter how sincerely introspective, there is an expectation of either acknowledgement, or engagement.

    What’s most disconcerting is finding that when I re-blog something that is totally inane and it gets dozens of notes, I immediately wonder if I’m just annoying people with my endless rants and rambles about issues that most hardly appear to relate to. Which leads me to question whether I should be posting these thoughts here, or would it be more appropriate to establish a private blog or diary to store them?

    I’ve also often toyed with the idea of creating an email account for my daughters, and just emailing all these thoughts to them at random. Like little notes about what to look out for in life in case I’m not around to annoy them with fatherly advice. When they eventually reach the age of 16 or so, I would give them the details to access their respective email accounts as a gift to help them step into the adult world that awaits them.

    I’m rambling again. I guess the gist of it all is simply this. I tend to engage often with the bloggers that I follow on Tumblr, and I’m still naive enough to believe that I should expect the same in return. But when it doesn’t happen, I wonder if I’m just an annoyance factor that they’re tolerating for follower counts, or should I really stop behaving like a troll and just get the message that they’re not interested in engaging.

    Either way, it sucks. Needing, being needed, being needy…it all smacks of desperation that everyone feels but no one is willing to own up to. So I guess it’s official then. I’m a Tumblr-whore that has just come out of the closet.