Pulling on my Anorak

Well I’ve been meaning to set-up a blog for some time now. And by ‘some time’, I mean at least over a year since one of my oldest friends did so and gave me the idea to try it myself. As you can clearly see, I was swift in my response. Nevertheless, here we are – ‘Anorak on a Soapbox’. I’ve had that name for a longer time for something I would use either as a blog or the name for an autobiography, if I ever reached a stage in my life where I could/should/would write one.

It’s a fairly obvious breakdown in terms of a title; I am generally a bit of a social oddball and so would fit the definition of being an anorak quite nicely, even if I do actually lack to the item of clothing in question (Not for want of trying, but they’re not terribly easy to find & seem to be a small fortune for one too). This is also a way that I can broadcast or share my thoughts on the state of things in the world i.e. current politics, world events, social events, etc.

Most people I’ve met & know me have said that I should go in politics as a career path, which always rankled with me slightly as I was studying to become an actor and have since graduated with that degree in hand. But I’ve also always been someone who doesn’t openly broadcast or share his thoughts on current political events as a sign of not wishing to fill my own Facebook with a stream of politicised essays on a constant daily basis whilst wishing to respect that my various ‘friends’ on Facebook (A loose terminology as I would expect that if asked I would imagine that most of those comprising the three-digit total of my Facebook friends might be consider me to be amongst their friends as we’ve not exchanged any kind of communication in years however that’s a point for another time) probably have different political opinions to my own. I already know this is the case with my friends that I see in the real world (Yes, I do have some of those too).

 

So we’re brought back to ‘Anorak on a Soapbox’ where I can occasionally talk about my thoughts on the burning issues without too fear of creating walls of text on what should otherwise be a social media site used for friendly conversation, light-hearted pictures, and the occasional rant. I know there’s much more to Facebook and all other social media than that, but I’m trying to be relatively simple with it.

I’ll probably be putting up the first ‘proper’ post later today so feel free to check it out.