My FB status updates
Nothing personal against Twitter, but I seem to enjoy Facebook more lately and have made myself scarce in Twitterville. But I still drop by every now and then, I still remember dropping one-liners there before.
Facebook or FB, however, is just perfect for me. Aside from being reunited with friends and classmates from way back in elementary days, it provides me a great venue to vent out anything that I feel. And since I have REAL friends following me, I get immediate feedback if I am making sense or not.
The FB status update line is really a perfect place for me especially when I am having my regular bouts with procrastination-disguised-as-writer’s-block which seems to happen regularly as of late. The status line however, as far as I am concern, is more than just a space for rants or bringing out my secret identity as a Bill Cosby-wannabe.
The space has become a ‘breeding ground’ of ideas for me, actually. What were rants or one-liners in FB have become a full-blown post, a poem, and even a song! Yes, that’s how that FB status line has become so useful to me, it’s like I’m making a draft every time I make a post there.
And speaking of status line updates, may I share here some of my ‘original’ posts in FB which were most replied and ‘liked’ by my FB friends. These are all my personal quotes, and I didn’t include those one-liners I picked up all over. So here they are:
- The only law I intend to break is the law of gravity, because I intend to fly someday.
- Yes, I tend to exaggerate sometimes. But mind you, I exaggerate accurately
- Moving on, not to show that I have given up… but rather, to prove that I am worth it
- What I lack in eloquence, I make up with sincerity
- I write not with my pen… I write with my heart
- I almost forgot, I’m one of the good guys! And good guys ALWAYS win in the end!
- Oftentimes, you have to deny your own happiness… for the sake of others
- I am not a singer. I don’t have a good singing voice. But I have a heart and feelings to express… and a hell lot of stories to tell.
- Things happen for a reason… even for no reason at all
- I blog. I write songs, poems & short stories. I take videos and pictures. I tell jokes and do some crafts… yes, I have a multi-faceted insanity
- When I wish for your happiness, I know it doesn’t need to have me as a part of it. I can be totally satisfied even though I am just standing on the outside, looking in…
- I could wish it didn’t happen so that I may not have to experience the pain. But then, I wouldn’t have felt the joy either. And that brief moment that I experienced happiness, that short span of time that I felt alive again, I can say it’s all worth the pain that I’m feeling right now.
- When it hurts, it only means it matters so much
- Oh, no please. No need to add cream in my coffee. Just be right beside me, and the coffee will be perfect :
- I am not a poet, I am poetry…
Omitted on purpose, were the post about wanting to be Wolverine for a very good reason and the post that ‘motivated’ my son to give me a wakeup call.
My favorite among these is number 4, because I really have a very limited vocabulary, but I am always sincere in what I write. Number 11 became a song and number 15 became a poem, where I disclaim being a poet.
Who knows, one of the remaining may ones may become a short story someday.
So the next time you catch me ranting on FB, think again. I could just be drafting my next poem or song, or I could just be thinking out loud… and then again, it could be all of the above.
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Wow Kuya Roy ang dami mo na palang quotes. I also like numbers 4, 7, 11-13.
Ako mahilig lang sa copy-paste. So don’t be surprised if I copy paste your quotes one of these days.
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Roy Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
hahaha! no problem Amor
thanks!
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So you’re in fact tossing ideas in the air and observing how they land. If friends get intrigued by them, that’s a good sign other readers might be interested how they pan out in a more fuller form. Nice sounding board of ideas.
Facebook seems more conducive to seeding ideas, no? Twitter seems more like a busy corner in a market place. It takes the unflagging zeal of a religious nut to stand on a box and rant to the milling crowd.
I like most of these, but my fave is number 11.
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Roy Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Yes Jan, Twitter seems to be more like a ‘To whom it may concern’ type of salutation, while FB seems to be a memo type where a “FOR” is placed with an RSVP implied.
funny, I honestly thought you’ll no. 12, the one you called a “dignified emo” post
thanks Jan!
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Yeah, I’ve been updated with these posts Sir Roy. Hehe, 4-11-13 got me the most.
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Roy Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 1:02 am
thanks Pao!
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