What This Is All About

So you're here, and you might be wondering what this new blog is all about. I'm not entirely sure myself, so I'll just state whatever I think matters.

I'll introduce myself a bit. To put it in a neutral way, I'm an individual currently under the influence of various afflictions (primarily severe social anxiety/phobia and depression) that have rendered most aspects of normal life unbearable. Instead of further obsessing over the destructive consequences that necessarily follow the disabilities, I have decided to turn my attention elsewhere, and this blog is one outlet for the negativity that invariably piles up. At least, that's the rational conclusion for me.

I'd like to call myself a poet, or at least an aspiring one, although often my afflictions distort my outlook and self-image, to the extent that I cannot be relied on to offer an objectively sound picture of myself. Perhaps this blog is an attempt to gain some sort of acknowledgement. I don't want to pretend to be a closet Emily Dickinson or Margaret Atwood, but I like to dream; so allow me.

Not much else now, except that I may be talking about politics, ethics, and religion, so be forewarned that I'm an agnostic with a Protestant Christian background and generally an anti-establishment left-winger.