I Agree...

"I'm really increasingly disheartened by people pretending that digital technology creates real emotions. I'm tired of people saying, 'I have facebook friends.' I have friends." -- Alexie Sherman

Digital tech. has it's uses and its good things. But it becomes nothing more then a crutch. It creates emotions but really they don't last. I've been part of this digital world for over ten years now. I've thought I had good friends and maybe I did at the time. However, there isn't a single person I talk to regularly online any longer that I knew even a year ago, now.

There are two people that I keep in touch with off and one, but it's casual it doesn't really mean a great deal. Where as the people that I've kept in real life that I've become friends with in person, face to face. Some of them I've known for over ten years. They end up being the people that come and go, those that matter return. Now, perhaps this isn't always the case but it does seem to be a trend.

While networking and such online might be a great thing and have it's benefits. Reaching a diverse group of people,  more people around the world and such. However, much of it is changing, fleeting and unstable. It is just as easy to unfriend someone on facebook as it is to friend. After all what in the end does a friendcount mean when you don't even know anything about most of them, you just add them so it looks like you have lots of friends. It's an illusion, like people putting well known books on their book shelves in public rooms in their houses so that visitors think they've read them.

So much is a facade, perhaps even more so online then it is face to face. While, I use facebook and I find it fun at times and no offense to those of you that I enjoy talking with online and there are a couple of you. But I would rather have friends. This is a dichotomy that I become in creasing aware of the older I get. I used to think my online friends would be there forever. However, there comes a time when things change when those friends you thought would always be on the inside of your screen disappear. People do it in real life to, don't get me wrong. But what I have found is that people in real life come back and those who vanish from the ether rarely return and when they do... it's never the same.

Cherish those friends around you, make they last. Talk to people online be friends. But remember it's the people you can see, you can year and you can touch that really matter. The internet is but a crutch that allows us some measure of safety. It allows us not to be forced into the vulnerable situation of social interaction that can tie our stomach in knots and make us want to throw up. Living is tying yourself up in knots, it is throwing up a little, it is getting hurt and it is reaping the rewards for your nerves. vanishes

The Things We Miss

Life goes on, it slides past us no matter how tightly we try and hold on to it. People talk about the past often as if it was this great thing but not always. Each of us has one thing that we tend to fixate on, a moment, a year, an age, a person or a place. That can be what inspires us, what drives us forward to do whatever we do but it does not have to be.

There is also one great thing that you miss this most, it can be the same thing, person or place. However, it does not have to be.

I find often what I miss most changes from time to time as life changes. Yet, there is one great thing that always comes back to me. The things that we return to are those that are of the most importance to us. I find that I miss the ocean most of all, the sound of the waves upon the shore, the vast space open and yet full of uncertainty, awe, fear and joy. I don't want an over crowded beach with silly people sunbathing, kids screaming and music blasting.

I want an empty beach, a beach that's quieter. You don't often find that at least not around the places I've had a chance to visit of late. It's like here, almost no matter where you go out in the woods or the country the sounds of people intrude into the quiet. The birds, the car horns and the sound of the wind all go hand in hand.

Still, perhaps we miss what we miss the most simply because we do not have it. If we had it, it might not mean the same to us. *disappears*

Boundries

It's about the boundaries, the boarders between one thing and another. The boundary between fiction and reality, the places where nature meets man made and the line begins to blur. Places were the true magic of the world happens such as the line where the water caresses the shores of the land. Sunset and sundown a time when the world is neither in light nor in darkness.

enter interlude into fantasy/
"Oh, tell to me, Tam Lin," she said, "why came you here to dwell?"
"The Queen of Faeries caught me when from my horse I fell
And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to Hell
I so fair and full of flesh and feared it be myself
But tonight is Hallowe'en and the faerie folk ride
Those that would their true love win at Miles Cross they must buy
First let past the horses black and then let past the brown
Quickly run to the white steed and pull the rider down
For I'll ride on the white steed, the nearest to the town
For I was an earthly knight, they give me that renown
Oh, they will turn me in your arms to a newt or a snake
But hold me tight and fear not, I am your baby's father
And they will turn me in your arms into a lion bold
But hold me tight and fear not and you will love your child
And they will turn me in your arms into a naked knight
But cloak me in your mantle and keep me out of sight"
/exit interlude into fantasy

Create a moment of magic a moment when two worlds cross and interact one with the other. I'm rambling again. That was the gist of the thought, I will leave it there for now. *disappears*