green (like the colour)

Dear Dreamwidth,

Hi! My name is green (like the colour). I've just joined this little community here. I'm looking forward to getting to know you better.

I'll probably use this blog for whatever I feel like at the time. Thoughts, dreams, stories, rants, I don't know. We'll see how it goes.

I hope you'll like me. Not that I'm going to base my sense of self-worth on your opinion of me or anything, I certainly hope I don't come across as too needy or anything like that, and for your information it's perfectly normal to want be accepted. We are social creatures, after all. But don't think I'm going to slit my wrists if you all decide you don't like me. That is to say, um... here's hoping we get along?

Ahem. Anyway... I once read in a psychology book that being rejected by an online community of Klu Klux Klan members causes slight physical distress in a person, which I thought was interesting. I suppose, even if it's a group of people whose values you despise, you'd still like to know that you could belong if you wanted to. You want to be the one who rejects them, not the other way around.

I have no intention of rejecting you guys, though. That would be pretty stupid, joining dreamwidth only for the purpose of rejecting it... who does that?

I should probably stop typing now.

Yours Truly,

green (like the colour).