What's In A Name

I'll be perfectly honest with you. I never actually wanted a blog (which explains the lack of posts). However, all of my friends were doing it, so I decided to sign up for one on the off chance that I would someday have a need. Eventually I ended up trying to use it for the sole purpose of using it, which didn't work either and just made random posts with no purpose themselves. So let's now try and create a post with purpose.

During the application process for a blog, there's a little text box that requires you to give your blog a name. I never liked that, mostly because when they forced you to come up with a name was the one time you couldn't come up with one. I wanted something original, but not flashy nor show-offy. Eventually I came up with Inmate of the Asylum.

I play a game called RuneScape which is a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game), and as such, people tend to form clans. One that I joined in July of 2008 has the nickname of The Asylum, and I quickly became known (with my comedic and talkative personality) as one of the crazier nuts in The Asylum. Thus, when I reached out for a name that was original and meaningful to me, I chose the name I currently have.

In the future, I've decided, that I will use this blog to talk about my views. None specifically, just about whatever is on my mind. This should function as a release, because I don't tend to speak my mind, ever. It's not that I'm scared of what people might say, and there are times I do speak my mind, but that is few and far between. The quietness of opinion that I have is more seated in the fact that I respect other peoples opinions so strongly, I do not wish to inadvertently offend them with something I may say. I've noticed that when people feel offended or that their opinions are falling on deaf ears, they tend to withhold their opinions, and I don't want someone to withhold something from me because they think I'll judge them (because I'm probably one of the least judgemental people you're likely to meet). This creates a sort of prison, if you will, inside me. The desire to express, but the will to withhold. In short, my mind is my asylum, and I'm stuck in it. An Inmate.

So as of this post, the name of my blog will come to symbolize who I am. A person who feels ensnared (but not imprisoned) inside himself because of a tapered social interaction mechanic. And here, in this blog, talking to no one and yet everyone, I shall be myself.