Is it really meaningful?

Yesterday there was a One Day Blog Silence to honour the victims at Virginia Tech.

Now I'm sure you're checking whether I posted anything yesterday :P No, I didn't. But it was more coincidence than design.

When I first found out about this, I was ready to support the cause, and join all the bloggers who were going to refrain from posting on the 30th of April. I'm not sure about Malaysia, but in France we seem to have this sort of thing pretty often... I remember that when I was in Angoulême we had a minute of silence for the victims of the bombings in Madrid (and our teacher told us that two years earlier they had the same thing for September 11) Then not that long ago there was something about switching off all our lights (electricity in general) for a few minutes (5 or 10? I've forgotten...) for some environmental cause (which I've forgotten as well...) I was going to do it, but it turned out that I wasn't home at that time, so all my electrical stuff were switched off anyway.

So you see...for me it's simple; as long as it's not too outrageous I'll gladly join in to support the cause. But this blog silence thing got me thinking. It's not hard to do...you see, I managed it without even trying! Which is exactly my point.

One minute's silence is, I suppose, meaningful. How often do you have a minute's silence? Real silence? I don't have it often...in my room I will usually have music on, even if I myself am silent (who am I supposed to talk to? :P) So if I want to observe a minute's silence I have to make an effort for it... The same thing goes for electricity.

Now about blog silence. My blog isn't that active...sometimes it's silent for days! (and once, for a whole month...when I was doing my practical) So there isn't really a point in having one day's silence. It wouldn't be much different from other days!

Don't get me wrong though...I'm not saying that the One Day Blog Silence isn't meaningful. But I'm saying that it's only meaningful for active bloggers...those who post every day, or almost every day. Those who actually have to refrain from posting. (I'm not sure how many bloggers that would include, though...)

I'm open to criticism about this point of view of things...I'm not really sure how I feel about it yet...things might change!

For those who read everything carefully, you might be asking yourself this: Why did I say that it was more coincidence than design? Why didn't I say that it was pure coincidence? Because it wasn't. I thought of posting something yesterday...then I got lazy and decided to leave it, thinking "hey, it's the blog silence day anyway..."