My legs are FREEZING! I just went for a walk up to the post office to drop off a letter to a friend and decided to take the longer way back. It was just beginning to get dark out when I left so it was a wonderful time as I walked past houses as their Christmas lights came bursting into the new born evening.
It is 10 days until Christmas...WHOA... 10 days? wait that means there are (putting up my fingers to count...even though I'm typing?) 16 DAYS! left to this year?...I could have sworn 2010 just started, what, just a couple of months ago...say 11 give or take a few days? How can this be? It has for sure been a year. And an incredible one indeed! I don't believe I have yet encountered a year such as this one. But I can't say that anymore now can I?
Me, me, me...I,I,I...My, my, my...Do YOU think it's strange that blogs even exist? I was trying to explain the concept of a blog to my mom the other night and she just doesn't seem to fully grasp the idea. It was a very random occurance actually, out of the blue she asked me what a blog was so I told her and she went on to ask me some other questions but she told me she was asking because Brian Williams on NBC always says, "You can check out more stories on my blog" and she never understood why he said it.
Our generation are the true elders of the booming technology period in which we now live. Ready for a throw back? "Back in my day!" I can recall not every house hold having a computer. I can recall my Dad getting his first pager. When you had to purchase tapes for your answering machines, Original neon colors in all their glory and cartoons being legit cartoons, animated and talented artists who truly enjoyed what they did instead of just trying to make a buck!
Yep now instead of a diary or a journal that you write with paper you can Blog it up all you want! Put yourself out there for everyone to see. Welp folks, I'm not building this all up to say that I'm quitting the blogging world along with facebook, no, I'm just stating that we strive to know so much about eachothers lives. Clicking here, Scrolling there, Don't you find it a bit silly that we say, "Oh I saw on your facebook the other day that you were doing this" or "reading that". Yes very true, we don't always talk to everyone and it's nice to update everyone. Don't you find it slightly strange how you can't hear anything? We are all soooooo loud and sooo talkative...and yet no one makes a single peep... We communicate, but not how we were created to. We say we use our voices...but our voices can't be heard amongst the abbrev's, and text tones. We say we want to make an impact, but what good can typing down your voice be, when you can just delete it?We spend so much quality time with eachother and talk through the internet, and texting more than we actually use that same phone to talk into...How strange is that? I'm sure many people could say that if they could trade in their talk minutes for text messages, they would.
Over these last couple of months I have come to a realization that each new gadget that comes out creating quicker, faster, highspeed communication, is slowly regressing society. If you think about it we used to socialize in person, but now we can socialize...online... Many extroverts are actually if you can think about it from a different stand point, becoming introverts...Does that make sense? Perhaps with everything else that is being created in this rapid moving world, there will be a new word invented for hermits who love to socialize. We want private lives except for everything we put on facebook and other social networks that compete, compete, compete. Update, update, update. So intense.
I enjoy reading peoples blogs I also at times, enjoy, writing one. If I didn't, I don't think I would continue. But like I've mentioned so many times, it's a pretty neat place to move words around to try and create how selected thoughts may feel in the naked eye. Being interpreted and translated. Most thoughts, if you can imagine, actually stay and will continue to stay unheard and unseen.
...But that's just me.
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