Blogja Vu

Reflection

We all know what deja vu is… when you feel like you've experienced whatever it is you're going through before. Blogja vu is my made up word (phrase?) for when you write about something, and then it comes up in a conversation with someone outside of the online world.

It makes you feel odd, like you're echoing yourself, or quoting something you've read. You can have seventeen conversations with different people about one subject, all offline, and it doesn't feel weird. But as soon as you write about it, even (or maybe especially) if the article was inspired by talking about that subject with that very same person, it feels different.

It's not necessarily a bad feeling… just odd. It can feel a little awkward, too, like the example above, quoting something you've read. It just doesn't feel like it belongs in the natural flow of a conversation, more like it belongs in a prepared speech.

So what can you do about it? Not much, as far as I can tell… I haven't been blogging THAT long, and it may be more prevalent in my specific niche of self-development (I'm not sure how often that feeling would come up for someone who blogs about, say, digital photography). Hopefully, with more time and exposure to the feeling, the awkwardness will fade.

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