The human imagination is such a powerful and great tool. A simple thought or a piece of text will trigger our imagination to create a whole new world for us to see and enjoy.
In books, we often find ourselves imagining the places the writer is talking about and putting faces to the characters he’s created. It all adds to the great fun of reading a story by in fact living it too.
Anyway, now with blogs, other than all that, we also find ourselves trying to imagine how the blog writer looks like in an attempt to associate a face to that person.
We try to pick up certain little details from here and there in their posts to try and make up a better picture of them in our minds, because it’s more comforting to us in a way to know how the person we’re reading from looks like.
Blogs are quite a personal way of communication and expression, sometimes revealing quite a lot about the writer and his life. With time the people reading the blog grow to know this person really well and it kind of bugs them if they can’t even picture that person in their minds, and that’s why they start imagining how they might look like.
I find it funny and very interesting when I try to imagine how someone might look like through their writings, and I find it even funnier and even more interesting when I think about how people would think I look like by reading what I write.
I wonder how I look like in your imaginations.
I actually don’t imagine faces but personality and maybe age. I miss it on the age many times. Somehow we always expect the older people like myself to be wise and young people to be clueless.
I find many young people to be more aware on some issues than I am and I do try to keep up.
I put my picture on my blog to make it more personal. Hey! This is me saying this! I am a real person.
I haven’t a clue or idea of what you may look like. But, you seem to be a very gentle and easygoing person and you’re a lot younger than this old lady. 😉
Maybe you should post your picture on the site so that we stop imagining;-)
Well I’m lucky enough to have you in real life and not to have to imagine you 🙂 Imagination is very important. I do it all the time 😛 in emails, chats, blogs, and books. It adds comfort, spice and connection 🙂 you can relate to a certain idea, place, or person through your imagination. Imagination is such an enjoyable bless. As for me, I have no idea why most of the people picture me as an extremely fat lady. Maybe coz I mention my love for yummy food a lot 😉
And as for you DianneMarie, you’re right about MMM being a very gentle & easygoing person. He is also very good looking 😉 And I personally believe your pic in the blog will add to its beauty 🙂
That’s a nice topic to talk about MMM 🙂 It’s such a huge part of my life yet I never really thought about it that way. When you know someone through the internet, you get to know who they are before you know what they are. I think that’s probably the best thing about people relations started on the internet, because most of the time, real life circumstances probably mean that you would have never met them otherwise.
As for imagination, I consider myself to have a very fertile imagination. Until it comes to imagining people 🙂 It’s there that my imagination goes bonkers. After I found out that you guys were probably enterning the movies after I watched “I, Robot” and was leaving, I started to try to remember how the people who were going up looked like. I was searching for a couple in my memory, and not for the mental images I hold of you.
Eman, I would have imagined you to be a bit chubby, maybe because you’re sweet, and most sweet people I know are chubby. But I saw a mini-pic of you on MMM’s old photolog behind your car, so that mental image was shattered 🙂 As for MMM, I imagine you to be thin, a bit dark( although I know you’re not from one of your posts), and with wirey glasses. But that must be an aftermath of all your IT posts 🙂
About pictures being posted of one self on blogs, I would rather there be none. It’s just so much more personal to me to not see a picture until I’ve known someone for years. Is that messed up?
Dianne, yeah I know what you mean. I always find myself thinking of the person’s personality through his way of expressing himself and then I pass to imagining how they look.
Happy to know you have such a positive idea of me 🙂
Natasha, maybe I will soon.
I’m thinking of adding an ‘About Me’ page and I might be putting a pic there when I get around to it.
Eman, thanks for the support as always 🙂
You always flatter me 🙂
Roba, well believe me Eman is nowhere even near chubby, she’s got a perfect form, and I’m not saying this because she’s my wife, it’s the truth.
As for me, looool, well I’m not thin and not fat, I’m far from being dark, and no wirey glasses 😛