Omari's Blog

One pleasure of mine that might surprise people is my love for Ask Metafilter, a website where you can ask questions of a generally helpful audience. I always drift toward the "human relations" questions, even though I very seldom have any answers for them.

I like the questions because they are a glimpse of the struggles that others deal with daily. An example tonight that touched me is how important is it to "be in love" in order to have a happy relationship?

Someone recently called me "neurotic," a colloquialism for "overanxious." She's absolutely right, of course--something I reflected upon with fascination. I am neurotic. I wonder a lot about different things, some trivial, some not. I like Ask Metafilter because it shows that other people worry about these sorts of things, too. It makes me feel a little more normal, a little less strange, to see that other people fret about these questions and that there often aren't any perfect answers.

I never understood why one of my previous lovers habitually read advice columns and Post Secret, and I likely never will. But maybe, just maybe, it's because deep down she was as neurotic as I am and that advice columns did for her what Ask Metafilter does for me.

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