so what's the point of an online journal.  i would imagine if you are talking about your emotions then it is for the interaction and input from other people.  Although, this does make sense I think it is sorta disgusting.  I was reading an entry from http://banzaidescent.motime.com and the entry confirmed what i've always sorta thought.  People who write about their emotions strive for some sort of contact with other people in a lot of cases.  I think that is one goal of my blog.  In the end though that search is given up because any contact is pretty superficial.  How can this un-reality provide us anything very real after all.  I do believe my blog has other purposes though.  I like recording my thoughts. Although, I never feel as if I get them all.   I also spend way too much time on the computer and it is easier to just have a journal here than an actual physical journal.  So this has got me thinking about something else.   Our experiences with other people online are very unfulfilling because they aren't very "real".  At least that is what i think.  So the feeling we get when we listen to music, are those "real"?  I love music but perhaps it is also just very unfulfilling.  It is merely a representation of something we can actually experience.  Then again, perhaps we are experiencing this emotion or feeling that is represented in music when we listen to it.  I would compare the experience to reading a book or looking at art or watching a movie.  If music is not real then none of those can be either.  I don't know.  A lot of my entries end with a very inconclusive statement.