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1. You own an iPod, or something similar.

   Think of the iPod as a luxury. Majority of the world cannot afford to buy food once a day, yet you have an iPod. You could have gotten the iPod as a gift from someone, or you could have bought it yourself. Now, how does this make sure that you are not poor? If you ask someone to lend you $100, while your iPod can be sold for $70, it means you want someone else to be inconvenienced by them giving you their money, while you do not want to give up listening to your iPod. Similarly, if you have something along the same lines, like a new laptop, and cannot part with it, you may not be poor. You can easily sell a laptop and get some money for it.

   Exceptions: Your job may depend on the laptop, or in some very rare cases, the iPod. Someone close to you may have given you the iPod and thus you cannot sell it, or else they will be greatly offended. Your iPod may probably be so old that you can only get $5 from it while you do not have money to pay the rent, which costs a couple of thousand dollars, etc. Of course, I can also say that if you can get $5 from your iPod, it means you are doing your best to make sure you utilize every resource possible before feeling that you are helpless and poor.

2. You can afford to buy a home or pay rent

   Home is another important factor that people and society have worked together to create. If you can afford to buy a home or pay rent for your current place of living, you are most probably not poor. Some ways to save money could be to cut off on living expenses: using less electricity, finding a cheaper place, selling off the home, renting a room to someone, etc.

   Exceptions: Even if you find a cheaper place, you may still not have the money you need. You may also already have the cheapest place anyone could get, unless you had a gun to force the landlord into lowering your rent. However, a gun usually costs money, so a really poor person may not be able to afford that. Unless, however, you use a knife to get a gun, but a knife costs too. Unless you use…..ok, never mind.

3. You can buy large combo meals from fast food places every day

   Food prices are a good way to measure the performance of an economy, and food is also a good way to measure the strength of your bank account, if you have one. If you can buy at least 2 large combo meals at McDonald’s or Carls. Jr.s every day, you are probably not poor. Why? You can buy cheaper stuff at grocery stores and cook things yourself for weeks, saving more than half the money you spend in a month on fast food.

   Exceptions: You don’t know how to cook, you do not have a kitchen, you get gift cards or coupons for the fast food purchase, etc.

4. You can buy the things you want

   The things you need are usually different than the things you want. Wanting to eat food daily is something you need. Wanting to buy coffee and chocolate everyday, in addition to other kinds of food, can be something you want. If you can afford to buy things that can be avoided on a regular basis, chances are you are not poor. Paying for a blog, host, design and extra features for your site just for a hobby also means that you are probably not poor since you can afford such a thing.

   I knew this guy once who would drink coffee 3 times a day, finish a pack of premium cigarettes every day, buy food supplies and also eat at fast food places multiple times a day. On top of that, he would ask from time to time to lend him something so he could pay his rent. I calculated his expenses with him and in front of him, and figured that he was spending around $250 for the things I just listed above. How much did he want me to lend him? Around $100 or so. I told him about this, and he stopped being friendly after that.

   Exceptions: You are addicted to smoking. By addicted, I do not mean that if you do not smoke you feel weird. No, feeling weird for not smoking is an excuse for people who want a lame excuse to keep spending money. By addicted, I mean if you stop smoking or drinking you feel extreme depression, or you get seizures and have to go to the hospital, etc. Also, without things like coffee, you may actually get literal headaches throughout the day resulting in you getting admitted to the hospital. Also, things like blog may maintain your sanity by allowing you to express yourself, and without that, you would be poor and insane, though some can say that such a reason is simply an excuse to spend on your blog while you do not have enough money for offline things.

   Another important exception to this rule is if you are Bes: Bes needs and wants chocolate every single day; no exception to this rule. Period. Bes used to give packs of chocolate to homeless people before someone threw it back at Bes and yelled “I want some change! What the HELL am I gonna do with that?” Bes apologized and moved on, and ever since, Bes has been thinking of never giving away any chocolate, but keeping it in the fridge to devour while writing posts at night.

5. You can buy things for others

   If you can buy things for others, you are most probably the opposite of poor. You may be rich. There is nothing wrong with buying a $500 watch for your boy/girlfriend, but there is something wrong with buying a $500 watch to impress someone and asking someone else to lend you $200 for your car payment at the same time.

   Exceptions: You feel your job or some relationship depends on you buying something for others so much, that you do not even have enough money for some personal things, like your own rent, enough food, etc. Sure, such an exception means you do not know how to have a good relationship and are in touch with the wrong people, but it also means that you may be poor and cannot help it. Another exception may be that you are raising a child or someone, and you want that child or anyone depending on your financially to be really happy, and thus you are sacrificing your own financial happiness.

I hope this list helps you realize whether or not you are really poor. Also, if you want to borrow money from someone, you may think twice before asking someone to part with their money, while you do not part with yours.

Can you think of more things to add to this list?

A good next topic could be “5 situations in which you wish you were poor.” Thanks for reading.

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What the feelings about homes could be all about

Before one can think about having something as precious as a home in the online world, one needs to figure out what kinds of things are considered important on similar levels in both the online and the offline world. A home is considered by most people to be the most important, personal and valuable property someone can have. You rarely see people respecting and getting close to homeless people right away; many people assume that if you do not have a home, you are to be less respected. It is as if the homeless people have done something wrong by not having a home: a home is an essential thing for you to have, if you want to live a life where the society does not loathe you every minute of the day.

A home is also what you cry for when you are sick, the way many people cry “Mommy! Mommy! WHERE ARE YOU MOMMY!?!” when they get sick. In fact, you cry for Mommy after you have cried for and gone back to your home, from wherever you were. Also you hear people say “I wanna go home, I don’t feel so good.” You do not hear people say “I wanna go to an internet cafe, because I don’t feel so good.”

Thus, considering such things, can we have similar feelings for something in the online world?

What is the online equivalent of a home?

What is the online equivalent of a home? Is it a website? Is it the popularity of a website? Is it the money a website owner makes from the website? Is it the identity of a person? Is it our presence on different channels of online communication? Is it the value of our contacts? Could it be the celebrity status of a blogger? Is it our e-mail address: “Hey, nice to meet you. Why don’t you come over to my e-mail address, though your e-mail address, and we can chat? Hmm, you can e-mail me this Thursday, say, at 7 pm?“? Ever hear that on a regular basis?

Could it be a combination of all of these, or is it something completely different? What is it that can be considered a universal form of a “home” in the online world?

The elements are everywhere, and I have identified the relevant reasons. I guess being in my home, among the many other places, helps me make simple things more complicated and vice versa, than what they are, for myself.

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Treating online people the same as offline people : you consider offline people to be true friends, you can talk to either offline or online and be satisfied, you give offline and online people the same priorities, etc.

Treating online people better than offline people : you trust and share your life with online people more than offline people, you prefer spending time with online people more than offline people, etc.

Treating online people worse/less than offline people : you trust offline people more than online people, you may also think online people can be inferior compared to the online people because of the online nature of things, you prefer talking in person instead of talking online, you avoid sharing personal stories with others online, etc.

Do you treat online people the same as offline people?

What is your opinion on this? Do you treat online people the same as offline people? How do you treat and compare the two?

Thank you.

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1. Someone asks you to comment on their blog because they comment on your blog
2. Someone asks you to help them with their blog because they helped you with yours
3. Someone asks you to guest blog for them because they guest blogged for you
4. Someone asks you to look at their content, like proofreading or video editing, because you asked them in the past to help you too
5. Someone asks you to promote their blog because they helped you promote yours

So, do you think you are in blog debt? Do you owe someone online something because of asking them favors or for their help?

Please let me know. Thank you for reading.

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1. Keyboard

   Who talks about keyboards? No, I am not talking about keyboard reviews, or even a post about how a new keyboard is making a blogger happy. How about someone writing about the very existence of a keyboard? What would life be if keyboards never existed? What would life be for one day if our keyboard broke and we could not find another one until the next day? Things like those make you appreciate keyboards more or less, and since keyboards are part of life, such appreciation affects our appreciation for life also. Interesting, isn’t it?

2. Pen

   Aaah yes, the pen. Many poets talk about pen the way lovers talk about their love. I wonder when bloggers will start talking about how a pen would feel, if it were alive, about a pencil? Would the two be jealous about each other? Would we consider a pen to be more influential and helpful to us in our entire life, or a pencil? Thoughts like that about any topic sometimes make ordinary things like pen seem more interesting than a blog itself.

3. The walk from your door to the car, bus, or the grocery store

   This is simply an activity, and for most people, it can be a boring activity if thought about too much. However, from leaving our home to reaching a car, bus or some destination by foot, how do our thoughts change because of the exposure to the outside world? Do we still believe in the same reasons for leaving the house, once we reach a destination, as we did before leaving the house? Even a small activity can be focused upon to kill boredom, or to come up with an interesting perspective about things in order make boring times more pleasing for yourself and your readers.

4. Waiting while putting in gas in your car

   I like smelling gasoline at the gas station. I do not start putting my nose in the gas pipe itself, but if I smell it, I enjoy it. However, during that activity of waiting while filling gas, what do you usually do? Do you always do random things, or do you always do something specific, like getting back in your car and waiting for the car tank to fill up? Who knew the amount of time, spent from putting the gas pipe into your car gas tank to the exact time your car gas tank is filled up, could be analyzed so much!

5. Trying to glance at a guy/girl who is looking at you

   I had a girl look at me today for while, continuously. I also had a guy, a grandmother and a dog do the same to me. I looked back, wondering why they were looking. The dog got bored of me and walked away, which was sad, but the others kept looking for unknown reasons. I tried to glance back, from time to time, wondering if I had a new stalker on the way, or if someone like the girl felt interested in me. Here, for me, the act of looking back and wondering was more important than the reason I was looking back at people who were already looking at me for long periods of time. Maybe Bes is just funny to look at?

These are 5 random things that many people do not blog about. Why? Because advertisors and many readers are not searching for such things, so many bloggers only try to focus on things that bring in more blog traffic.

Exercise: You suggest the most random, strange topic, and I will write about it.

To illustrate what I mean, you can tell me the weirdest thing, topic or idea in this universe, and I will try to write an article about it using a completely unique perspective. Some soul or even souls may have already talked about it sometime in the past, but I will present to you my own unique perspective about that “something” that you point out. I will not talk about it just to fulfill the task of talking about it; I will bring to light something that you may or may not find interesting, but hopefully you will realize how almost anything can be talked about nicely, when done with sincere passion.

Thanks for reading.

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Some anti-gay people I know are so nice and respectful that I feel lucky to know them. Others are simply so obsessed that I am surprised.

I know many people online who are gay, many people online who are not gay, and I know many online people who do not like gay people. Some of my very close offline and online friends do not like gay people, but they also make sure they have logic in their arguments, and that they do not go around hating a whole group of people simply because of their own sexual preference. My close friends, both online and offline, can say anything logical and warranted because they are my close friends. However, if you know me only through a single post and start telling me online that you know me for only a day, and that you will not come back to my blog because you think I am gay, I am not going to persuade you to stay. Convincing people that gay people are good or they are bad can be a quest I am willing to go after; convincing you to stay, because of your assumptions while reading a single post and knowing me for less than 24 hours, is something I could have done last year when I was counseling people a lot.

However, many of these people do not care about such things as long as they are not directly affected by something related to the concept of being gay. I notice some people act weird every single day, because of their fear that gay or bisexual people are alive in this world. They do not care if a gay or bisexual blogger posts something useful in a blog post or a blog comment; they only care about the sexual preference of that blogger or commentor, and they judge the blogger or commentor accordingly.

The most common reason for people hating gay people

Even though so many people tell me that they would not like to be touched sexually by a person of the same sex, I often wonder how many of such people are attractive enough to attract anyone. If you ask people, the people who say “I do not like being touched or asked out by another guy/girl“, you may be surprised to hear the answer if you ask them “How many people of the same sex as you have ever actually hit on you.” Even if someone hits on you, does that mean you have to start hating that person, or everyone who has the same sexual preference as that person?

Unless a gay or bisexual blogger talks about topics revolving gay and bisexual nature of people that affects your views or yourself directly, it can be extreme to argue against or even hate someone or treat them differently, simply because of their sexual preference, when they are simply trying to focus on a non-gay topics and offer you their opinion. Why not just focus on the topic at hand if that topic does not revolve, even remotely, around topics like same sex marriage?

How about gay people hating straight people?

Now an even more interesting thing to think about is how many gay people have phobia against non-gay people. I was making a list, and I know at least 14 people off the top of my head who are strictly anti-straight; these people are obsessed with hating straight people, which is again weird in my opinion. I think I am going to start a series on both topics soon.

What do you think? If you are a close friend, you already know if I am gay or not. Otherwise, you can probably figure out on your own if I am gay or not, though I love being whatever nightmare or phobia you may have. Why? Because I can. Your ability to start acting weird around me simply because of your own fear, which has nothing to do with me and which exists because of you passing judgments about me without thinking, gives me the right to.

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Being inconsiderate offline

Almost every week I talk to some friends who tell me about how they ran into some people who had no manners because they did not respect the culture, religion, political view or something else that my friend believed in. However, people usually do not talk about their own character not having any rules or views on how one should be accommodating of other views. For example, if a certain culture dictates how someone should eat, it can be very hard to find any rule or cultural characteristic that dictates how one can let someone eat anyway they want, if they did not subscribe to certain cultural trends.

If a culture, religion, or any other guideline view about something in life about is not accommodating of people who want to do things their own way while not hurting others, why can we ourselves not be more considerate to and of others and still follow our culture and our rules? If our culture or religion does not consider other conflicting views, does that mean our culture and religion is not good? Why can people not be all right with others doing the same thing in different ways? Does everyone have to have the same religion? Does everyone have to have the same culture? Does everyone need to have the same political view? Does everyone need to do everything in the same exact manner? As long as someone is doing something and not hurting others directly and intentionally, why can we not be happy with them, coexist with them, and even incorporate them and their views into our own lives?

Being inconsiderate online

I run into many blogs daily where people get upset over someone having differing view about something then them. A blogger may get upset and feel offended if someone else talks about contradictory views on religion, politics, or even blogging. However, should we not have the quality of being considerate to other views? Why can our own online views, such as blogging rules, dictate something like “We will treat and deal with the people who have the exact same views as us, in exactly the same manner as the people who have different views“?

Why is it that I cannot write something, like saying that blogging is just a stupid fad, without getting people to attack me without any reason? Being inconsiderate does not mean that you do not disagree with others. Being inconsiderate means that you cannot live normally while knowing that people have different views. The only reason we may be upset at others online, and thus be inconsiderate to them, is because those other people are going after ideas that we ourselves have either not thought of, or we have decided not to utilize them. We do not disrespect and disagree with others people because we believe we are right; we disrespect and disagree with others because they have a different view and because they do not subscribe to our views.

This mentality creates a little dilemma, if one believes in the concept of applying a theory to different things; does everyone then, when following the concept of being considerate to others, need to follow the same standards online? Why can we not have more blogs without any RSS feeds? Why can we not have nonstandard, and strange, labeling around a site, like the word “Backroad” instead of “Archives“? Why can we not have more blogs without the comment feature? One of the grand questions of all: if we want to be considerate to others, why can we not be comfortable with blogs that deliberately aim to be inconsiderate?

Do you think the concept of being considerate to others has any value for you?

What is your view on this? Do we have to criticize or hate every instance of something that we disagree with? Could that be the reason why many married and dating couples look like brothers and sisters, because many people want to find someone who not only acts like them but also looks like them? Can human beings, as a whole, ever have a mentality where they not only respect different views and people, but they also make it a part of their own character to revolve their own views and character on such a thing? We we, as individuals, easily have a mentality where we are not only considerate to others, but where we also revolve our own ideas and beliefs around the idea of letting other ideas and beliefs prosper within our own life domain?

I am touching the introduction of this touchy subject very lightly, as this subject probably defines the lives of many people out there, and deserves more than just a single post that was written while Bes was hungry. Do you agree or disagree with this?

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You may forget bloggers who helped you in different ways

I have realized that many times, when bloggers get what they want, like an increasing number of comments or blog popularity, they forget or deliberately ignore the bloggers who helped them reach that stage. If you are such a blogger, once you become famous or achieve some blogging goals, you may start ignoring the small time bloggers who may have given you advice before, while focusing no more prominent bloggers.

You may also simply start linking less to the bloggers who helped you in the past, even if they write great quality content. You may also tend to e-mail or IM them less, while interacting with new, famous bloggers more. One of the reasons you may forget some people who helped you in the past is that those bloggers may not have helped you before in ways you wanted to be helped, but now that you have achieve some blog popularity, they may be offering a lot of help to you.

Have you forgotten the bloggers who helped you? Have you been forgotten by other bloggers?

What is your opinion on this? Do you still keep in touch with the bloggers who helped you improve, directly or indirectly? Do you know of bloggers who asked for your help before, but now that they consider themselves to be more popular, they stopped contacting you?

Thank you for reading.

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1. Infatuated with Stats

   Your blogging depends on checking your blog stats. If you get a lot of traffic on one day, your whole life seems happy. Otherwise, you feel depressed and may think that you are doing something wrong. For you, RSS feed subscriber count, site visitors, and similar numbers are more important than blogging or your blog content itself.

2. Yearning for Comments

   You write to get comments, even if what you write does not deserve any comments. You think about commentors not to appreciate them, but to get their comments on your site in order to get more comments on your site. You do not care if you get a useful or a useless comment; you are happy as long as you get a comment.

3. Failure to Have a Back Bone

   When you get criticized, you may feel like shutting down your blog. Just as in real life, there will always be people who may disagree with you. Same is the case with blogs; it is very easy to leave a comment that says “I think that’s stupid.” Be prepared; otherwise, you will not last long in the blogging world, which is fast becoming a very vicious, competitive place. You should probably figure out the Art of Reacting to Criticizing Comments, as you probably do not know how to react to criticizing comments.

4. You are Blinded by Money Prospects

   You blog for money without caring for readers. Period. You write in order to gain sponsors, and you write in order to gain readers who will click on ads. You value and thank sponsors more than your readers. Whether or not you actually ever earn money is a different thing, though you do not focus on what you offer to your readers. For you, the idea that you can try to make money signifies that you are on a noble path, and that you are a hard working person who wants to earn a living. The idea of making money blinds you with such a misconception.

5. You Think You Will be Famous

   Many bloggers simply focus on getting attention for the sake of getting attention, and if you are one of them, you will do many random, weird things, including posting random things to please people, just to try to be famous. You do not realize that being a real famous person means you do things naturally that result in someone noticing that you do those things, thus making you a famous person. You do not work on becoming famous. You work on doing important things that can make others believe that you are famous. You also do not realize that becoming famous does not mean you did something good; you could be doing relatively evil things, even in your own view, and getting attention. All you want is attention.

6. You Think You Can Actually Make a Difference

   We all want to do something in our lives, hopefully. Many people think that they can change the world or the blogosphere overnight. If you are such a person, you may be wanting to change things right away, without changing yourself first. Sure, it is not necessary to change yourself all the time, though if you do not know first hand what the change feels like, how can you expect to change the world, since you would not know how to achieve such a change. If your blogging relies on making a difference, you may be disappointed. Blogging in order to try to infuse an idea of a change in people is a much more realistic goal, as voluntary change is more permanent and more effective than an overnight, emotional, emotionally manipulated or forced change.

7. You Think You Can Make People Change

   It can be next to impossible to convince many people to stop drinking coffee. Yet, many people think that they can change the entire lives of others simply by giving them a lecture or two. Blogging in order to tell people that they are wrong and that they should change can be a sign that you do not know how human interaction works.

8. You Blame Others for Your Blog Problems

   If your site goes down, you blame your host. If the number of commentors you get on a regular basis goes down, you blame others for not linking to you enough. If your RSS feed subscriber base shrinks, you blame the blogging advice others give you. You never blame yourself. Every choice you make on your blog is your choice, so blaming others all the time for your blog problems is a very naïve thing to do. If someone forced you at gunpoint or threatened to do something, like shutting down your blog if you do not do what they say, then sure, go ahead and blame that someone. Otherwise, stop blaming and start thinking. Thinking while crying is better than crying and blaming someone else.

9. You Rely on the Latest Blog Fad

   If a famous blogger talks about it, you talk about it. If others are using the same gadget on their blogs, you want to use it on your blog too. You follow the trend simply because there is a trend to be followed. You do not follow things because they make sense. You follow things because you are naïve.

10. You step on others to get ahead without realizing the political consequences

    This may be surprising to you. If you use people for your own personal gain, you are probably a naïve blogger. You have to understand that using tactics to manipulate people may result in many people being blinded easily at the moment, but as time passes and new trends and views come to surface, more and more people will start realizing that you used them without appreciating them, or without giving them anything useful in return. You are naïve because you try to use people without realizing how such an action will be noticed by others. You simply want to use people and get away with it.

This list will surely help me focus on my blogging more. I hope such a list will help you also, by allowing you to identify similar traits not only in your own blogging style but also in others. Sometimes, a blogger may simply be naïve and may not want to hurt others intentionally. Other times, a blogger may be naïve because they want to use others and they do not think of any consequences.

What is your view on this? Do you agree or disagree with something? Can you think of more points that may be a signify someone being a naïve blogger?

Thank you for reading.

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1. Be honest:

   Hiding a fact is one thing. Hiding a fact to manipulate someone to their own disadvantage is a completely different thing. Being honest means you do not lie to others, and that you do not try to manipulate others without their knowledge, to their own disadvantage, by keeping them in the dark about something.

2. Do what you say:

   This can be noticed on many blogs and in the offline world, where many people will make promises and then later either not keep them, or fulfill them in ways differently than originally proclaimed. Some people even pretend to do what they say by simply preaching others repeatedly about good things, like telling others to be honest or to appreciate others.

3. Focus on both your and other’s well being:

   What many people both in the offline and online worlds do not realize is that being in a situation where two people are doing a trade does not mean you have to focus only on the money you can make. You also have to focus on what you are giving to the other person to ensure that the other person gets a fair deal too. If you pretend to offer a fair deal to someone else, when in reality the deal is only fair for you, you are not being professional. Many online blogs and businesses today make a lot of money, but they are not professional as their customers and readers are getting nothing but an illusion of a fair trade.

4. Be respectful:

   Being respectful means not hurting the other person’s character or personality directly if you have the chance, even if the other person hurts your character or personality. If you disagree with someone for any reason, you focus only on disagreeing with arguments, not with people who disagree with you. If you want to disagree with someone or something, you express your frustration without forcing the other person to become frustrated on purpose.

5. Not getting too personal:

   Not getting too personal involves not divulging unnecessary information from your end, and not asking for unnecessary information either. Telling someone how your boyfriend/girlfriend had an argument with you can be an answer to a question “How did he/she argue with you?“, but telling someone bad things about your boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s friends and family can be too much information. Similarly, if someone you meet for the first time only wants to be your friend but you want an intimate relationship right away, that is getting too personal. Getting too personal also involves asking too many personal questions just because you are bored or you want to make a conversation.

That is my list of 5 of the many things that make you a professional person. Professionalism is a word that seems to stem from the concept of having a profession, but professionalism itself is not limited to any profession or even the idea of having at least a work place. In theory, you can be professional anywhere, anytime, no matter who you are or what your age is.

What is your opinion on this? Can you think of something else that can make a person professional, or more professional? Do you think being professionalism means you must have a job or a profession, and that you must be in a business or job related situation?

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Future employers may ask for you blog instead of your résumé

Future employers will not only search for the way you blog but the way you interact with others through your blog. Do you help others online? Your employer will notice that. Do you use online people and leave them hanging? Your employer will notice that. Do you break the personal and business promises and deals you make with others through your blog? Your employers will notice that.

If you were an employer, it may seem more logical to find out about an employee by the way they actually behave online through their blog, compared to reading a résumé which may probably be a few self-advertising pages.

What do you think? Do you think one day your blog will define you more than your résumé in the eyes of an employer?

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Controlling stress does not mean we have no stress

Controlling a situation can be an interesting thing, though controlling a stressful situation does not mean a person is able to handle the situation. A person could be able to negotiate their way out of an argument, but they may be feeling alienated from the person they argued with. A person may be able to clear a misunderstanding, but that person may also end up severing their relationship with someone else in the long run. A person may even be able to fix critical problems on their blog and avoid any damage, though they may end up acting rude for a long time to online people, or even acting different in the offline world.

We may be transferring online stress to the other parts of life

Whatever change that results in a person after or during a stressful situation, it can be because of the stressful situation. We may be inclined to think that we become moody because our friend calls us too much while we blog, though in reality we may be becoming moody anytime we blog. We may not be realizing that we are shifting our stress onto different things instead of actually working on reducing the stress itself. We may think blogging is not stressing us, but we may be feeling stress from lack of sleep, lack of enough food, lack of having friends, lack of exercising, lack of relaxing time, or almost anything else in the offline world. In reality, those other forms of stress may have been born because of our initial and real stress that may be stemming because of blogging, or any other online activity or situation.

Online stress and offline stress both have one thing in common: Stress

So far, I am noticing that people are treating online stress completely different than offline stress. I think there are differences between online stress and offline stress, the same way there are differences between different kinds of offline stress. However, one thing that many bloggers are forgetting is that both online and offline stress result in us being stressed. The critical element to consider is not that we experience and want to handle online stress, but that we are handling stress. Once we realize that, we can focus on the online nature of some stress in order to come up with a good way to try to reduce or eliminate the stress.

What do you think? Do you handle online stress the same way you handle offline stress? Do you think that handling online stress sometimes does not work as we may start stressing in the offline world, as a result of online stress? Do you think I am on the right track to tackling this issue?

Thanks for reading.

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