When I post something, it's because I want to talk about something. Sometimes it's frivolous, sometimes it's serious. Most times, it's nothing that someone else hasn't already said somewhere else. But nonetheless, I want to talk about it. It's always wonderful when someone else wants to talk about it with me, but if they don't, they don't.

It's LJ as a whole that's the party, not any one individual journal--each journal is one person at that party, joining a conversation in progress here, starting a new conversation there. And conversations bloom and grow and die away and start up again somewhere else, or flare into arguments, or devolve into flirting. No one of us is so brilliant and commanding that the whole party will focus on us at all times--if we're lucky, we get a few moments where all other conversation dies away because everyone is listening to us, but they're only moments, and they pass. And the conversation moves elsewhere, to other topics. And it's not that we've done anything wrong, but that there's just so many other things out there to see and hear and talk about.

If you want to talk, talk. And don't worry about who's listening.