Interconnectivity
Posted by incoherencedaily on October 14, 2007
I am, to sum it up in one word, amazed. I’m amazed, freaked out, and a little wary at the same time. I just realized how connected everything is now. Well, not really. I Knew that I could conceivably talk to someone in Sydney, Australia with barely five minutes search. Perhaps not a specific person, but at least someone in that place.
This realization, this epiphany, if you will, struck me today whilst I was immensely bored. I was sitting in front of my laptop, wondering what I could do. It occurred to me that I could look at random people’s blogs and tell them anything, even though I had absolutely no connection to them. Mind you I haven’t written anything mean and I don’t plan to. It just seems like such an odd thing to do. Almost like butting into a stranger’s conversation, but not rude.
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College will drive me crazy, I know it.
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Also, everyone seems to have this burning drive to hook up or tell me they’ve hooked up all of a sudden. All at the same time. This seems to be an unseemly coincidence that I wish had not happened. It feels like a giant practical joke that ends up as a plot to a second rate novel, selling for half price in some giant megastore’s bookbin.
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To end on a cheerier note, I get to go with the college choir to present at the open house. I’d rather do a concert with my band any day, but I guess I’ll take what I can get.
Cheers!
-Louis
crywithme said
I was having a conversation today with my computer…when all of a sudden a stranger took it upon themselves to interject into my converstation. The stranger didnt say anything rude, or mean, and under an invited situation might have seemed insightful. This stranger overheaing my conversation with my computer felt like the quandry I was in had a simple answer, so he just blurted it out. Im not sure how he happened to stumble onto my conversation, but I must say at first I believed he missed the point. Clearly the solution to my situation is obvious, but the exercise that I had begun with my Lenovo was not an exercise for answers, but instead for relfection.
Then as I began to curse the strangers name for such a lack of insight I had a change of heart. This stranger had taken the time to read something that I had written. Compelled by what I dont pretend to know, but I do know he was either outraged by my conversation, or in awe. The only time strangers bother to comment are when something truly upsets them or truly suprises them…in a good way.
After doing a little research on my stranger I discovered that his comment was made out of sheer boredom. Normally that would make the comment mean less, but I know the multitude of computer conversations is much like the pages in a phone book. I could be selected by just opening to a page and pointing, or as I’ll let myself believe…divine selection.
It was not that long ago I complained about my blog going unread. This is a sign…continue to blog.
Thank You
Cheers
Yanick said
Hey Louis. I thought about what you said the other night (“You don’t post in your blog anymore”), so I decided to bring it back to working condition & whatnot. Let’s see if I can make a habit of ranting online… PS: it’s a different link; http://myriiad.blogspot.com