All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. — As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143
After four years of reading an online forum off and on, I've had the following epiphany.
An online forum is almost like a play with actors, both active participants and passive readers.
Each actor writes out their sparse dialog, but they all may have their own images of that play arise whilst interpreting the replies from other participants.
The minute a reader writes a response or makes an original post (OP), s/he becomes an actor.
Sometimes I forget that an online forum is not reality itself.
Yet what I write in a forum should often reflect the good that is found in real life, to balance out "the evil men do."
“The evil men do lives after them.
The good is oft interred with their bones,” — Julius Caesar (Roman general and statesman, 100-44 B.C.)
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