This Is The End, Beautiful Friend

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July 27, 2013

This Is The End, Beautiful Friend

Xanga.

A place where I opined about almost every aspect of my late-teens to mid-twenties.

Now a relic of a bygone era, an era pre-Facebook, Twitter, and the explosion of social media sites that make self-expression seamless.

In truth, I all but forgot about this place, until I caught wind of its possible closure. And when I did, and took a look at my entries, the memories flooded like waves on Floridian shores. I can’t believe I have a written record of my thoughts from as long as a decade ago, when I was just a senior in high school. I’ve come a long way since then. Life has been nothing short of crazy, with each experience making me more malleable in order to keep up with the times.

I hope Xanga endures, if only because it’s one of the few remaining sites on the internet that have been around since my youth. I’m a sucker for nostalgia you see, and every taste I get leaves me yearning for (sometimes) better days. But if it doesn’t then I will say only this: Xanga, thank you for providing me with a platform to speak my mind (however immature or naive I was about it) because I now have a timeline of my growth through the words I have written down.

To everyone that bothered to read and comment, I thank you. You are the Internet’s class act of bloggers in my opinion and you have my gratitude for putting up with my sometimes endless rambling and stream-of-consciousness babble, not to mention the often cryptic and angst-ridden entry hidden in song lyrics.

I hope to make a new blog one day, and when I do, I hope I can have a similar experience there as I’ve had here. It’s been one for the record books.

If you’re on Twitter and would like to continue following me in 140 characters or less, I am “at” swordmalice.

And of course, as always….

SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY

YOU’RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT.