Community stress, thats what I would call my situation. With the Internet and the all great connectivity this is the latest stressor in life. I am not talking about the gadgets that have sprung over the place which lower your concentration level but the stress that comes out of the information that this brings in.

Lets start with the first one, this blog itself. Now that there are blogs, you got to write here or you are not happening. Hell everybody is writing why not me? If everybody gets time to do this stuff and I don't, I must be going really wrong somewhere.

The next one, the development communities. There is loads of people writing loads of software for free and otherwise then why not me? I am a Techie and writing such programs is no big deal, so if I am not doing it, I must be going really wrong somewhere.

The travel communities. If you search on the internet for travel info you get info on millions of people who have travelled across the world to all sort of places. I love traveling and I am unable to do anything more than a trip once a year to my parent's place, I must be really going wrong somewhere.

You can continue with the list forever. In the bygone days, the most you could get to know was from you close associates and relatives who you would meet only once in a while. They could stress you only for a limited time. People did not write multiple letters about the same thing as it was really boring and this limited their capacity to create stress for others, so on and so forth.

But this has changed significantly. Now you can send your pretty travel photographs to a million people at a single click (why don't I have million people on my address book while s/he does, I must be really going wrong somewhere), creating stress for at least 900,000 (I am assuming that 10% have already visited the place and know it sucks, but then they are unhappy they never got such good photos, all like photography and they must be really going wrong somewhere). Suddenly everybody loves you and the photos but are totally stressed out planning a visit to that place.

You don't even have to send anything to anybody. People do enough to find their own stressors on the www. No one can ever buy the best digital camera on the internet. You can never get the lowest airfare on the internet. You can never meet the right girl on the chat room............you will always find this other guy who has better stuff than you.

I am totally stressed out, everybody writes better than me on this blog becasue I don't get any comments/hits on my blog. I scored a 87% in English (both language and literature) but still don't get hits, I must be really going wrong somewhere.