Comment on IT'S JUST THE INTERNET by heysawbones
It's a good question. I'm not entirely sure if this is the right audience for the concept. Why dA?
I used to write similar things on Gaia. Why Gaia? I think I like the idea that there are other people out there on these massive social networking hubs who are interested in heavier topics. I can't be the only one. A lot of what people write to dA (as an audience) is aiming pretty low, so to speak.
I can't speak for everyone else, but when someone writes something thoughtful on dA and directs it at me, I feel a little better about things in general. It's nice to see someone being thoughtful. I can't say without bias that this piece is 'thoughtful', but that was the goal.
I used to write similar things on Gaia. Why Gaia? I think I like the idea that there are other people out there on these massive social networking hubs who are interested in heavier topics. I can't be the only one. A lot of what people write to dA (as an audience) is aiming pretty low, so to speak.
I can't speak for everyone else, but when someone writes something thoughtful on dA and directs it at me, I feel a little better about things in general. It's nice to see someone being thoughtful. I can't say without bias that this piece is 'thoughtful', but that was the goal.
no demeaning intentions in my understanding, mind, but you're lightly saying you wrote this in an effort to make the readers feel better?
(of course there are 'heavier' thinkers. the 'net, technically not a where, but i'm not sure how else to consider it, doesn't mean by its existence those thinkers avoid being here
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i guess... the piece somewhat comes off to me in the following manner: temperature and windchill and all factors, there's a magnificent snowfall expected to last three days and it's minus thirty F outside. you're at the counter - wherever you wish to work in this situation - and through the door walks the female whose teeth show signs of her abuse of tobacco and likely other substances. the ineptitude of her very existence prevents her from returning the 'hello' you issue, being that she is a customer and such is your job responsibility, while she storms the counter demanding more cancer sticks. the glaze in her eyes momentarily lifts, releasing her from the stupor of her sad life, and she comments 'man, it's cold out there'
well no shit, woman. what else is obvious?
'feeling better' if i'm reading your reply correctly is a grand intent. just... you're right the dA audience is likely terribly lacking in the will to otherwise change
~ you wrote a good piece
thanks for sharing
(of course there are 'heavier' thinkers. the 'net, technically not a where, but i'm not sure how else to consider it, doesn't mean by its existence those thinkers avoid being here
)i guess... the piece somewhat comes off to me in the following manner: temperature and windchill and all factors, there's a magnificent snowfall expected to last three days and it's minus thirty F outside. you're at the counter - wherever you wish to work in this situation - and through the door walks the female whose teeth show signs of her abuse of tobacco and likely other substances. the ineptitude of her very existence prevents her from returning the 'hello' you issue, being that she is a customer and such is your job responsibility, while she storms the counter demanding more cancer sticks. the glaze in her eyes momentarily lifts, releasing her from the stupor of her sad life, and she comments 'man, it's cold out there'
well no shit, woman. what else is obvious?
'feeling better' if i'm reading your reply correctly is a grand intent. just... you're right
the dA audience is likely terribly lacking in the will to otherwise change~ you wrote a good piece
thanks for sharingI guess in a way it's about feeling better, yeah. I wanted to share an optimistic thought, even though I knew it could fall largely on deaf ears. The more people write something thoughtful, the closer it gets to common, right? Not to say that it would ever happen - but I think it is worth trying. If nothing else, at least a few people got something out of reading it, and I got something out of reading people's thoughts on it.
Thank you so much for commenting. It made me think.
Thank you so much for commenting. It made me think.
randomly, before i bore you much more 
i want to apologize for the way my last reply read. i went out jogging almost immediately after writing to you, and to a friend's for the night from there (hence the delay in my getting this out), and thought on it; it may have come off that my words seemed to attack you, when i meant only (though fully lamely put together) that i mostly agree with you
so. i am sorry if what i said read as innapropriate. if any of the rest of you in person is as this piece, you are an amazingly lovely person
i want to apologize for the way my last reply read. i went out jogging almost immediately after writing to you, and to a friend's for the night from there (hence the delay in my getting this out), and thought on it; it may have come off that my words seemed to attack you, when i meant only (though fully lamely put together) that i mostly agree with youso. i am sorry if what i said read as innapropriate. if any of the rest of you in person is as this piece, you are an amazingly lovely person