Goodbye

This is my last blog post....

I have found an internal time machine and am going back to 1996. I had just started using email then, reluctantly. I did not have a cell phone. I used a land line and somehow managed to live my life not being able to call someone when out and about. I did not text my conversations. I did not have a blog. I wrote in notebooks. I wrote actual letters. Pen to paper and stamp to envelope. I sent emails when required. I did not have MySpace or Facebook.

In this era, our time is most spent in front of a computer instead of faces. Our lives are now filled with "friends" we hardly know, or some we apparently do not know at all. Or those no longer in our lives we wish to peek in on from time to time (completely irksome). We are voyeurs in each others' worlds, these cyber-scrapbooks and online shrines we build to ourselves. We have such a weak sense of identity in this life - this 2008 - that we define ourselves by profiles and interests and surveys. We have no idea who we are anymore...Someone else sparked this thought in me, and I have continued it...

I had a life before all of this. I will have one after it is all gone. If I lose connection when I lose this, it was never real in the first place. This may very well be true.

I am going back to 1996. Join me if you care to.