My obituary in 208 words, a Blog Off Post
Every two weeks, the blogosphere comes alive with some thing called a Blog Off. A Blog Off is an event in which bloggers of every stripe weigh in on the same topic at the same day. The Blog Off this round passed off by using famous vote and it is based on a human resources exercising where humans write their personal obituaries as an exercising in answering the question "Who are you?"
A traditional newspaper obituary is 208 words or less so we're honoring that antique conference to preserve things quick.
It may come across as macabre but I don't think it is in the least. Life's short and denying that needling truth does nobody any favors. So without any further ado, here's my obituary. I'm leaving off the dates to heighten the mystery. Yeah right.
Paul Anater died. He hated flowery terms meant to disguise the finality of death so we'll say that he died. Expressions like "passed on" and "passed over" got on his nerves but the inane "passed" sent him into fits of apoplexy. "Passed what?" he would bark. "Passed the bar? Passed the idiot in the right lane? Call things what they are." Oh that Paul.
He had little patience for public self-analysis and was smart enough to know that the term for it was omphaloskepsis. He was also smart enough to know that it came from the Greek for "navel gazing." He found other peoples' omphaloskepsis to be self-indulgent and listening to it to be tedious. He spent inordinate amounts of time engaging in it himself of course, but he kept such things private.
Underneath his crotchety exterior he became a person who understood the difference between a concept and a sense and the wondrous nature of each. He might be imperious and worrying however never notion two times about preventing to answer a question or praise an attempt. He loved deeply and become cherished simply as deeply. No count what else he did or did not do, he knew they had been the best matters that honestly mattered.So there you have it a Blog Off obituary in 206 words to be precise. That turned into a fun exercise. Really. What could you need to appear as your obituary? If some thing like that ran in The Times I'd be pleased despite being too dead to understand it fully. More than whatever it said, I'd be pleased simply to show up in The Times. Hah!
As the day goes on, the rest of the participants in today's Blog Off will appear miraculously at the end of this post. Keep checking back and check out everybody's obits. You can follow along in Twitter as well, just look for the hashtag #LetsBlogOff. If you'd like more information about about the Blog Off or if you'd like to see the results of previous Blog Offs, you can find the main website here .