AUGHHH

Everyone--EVERYONE--knows that it is against all the unspoken rules of the Interwebs to post TWICE on the first day of your brand new blog-baby thing. Oh, look. I am breaking that rule. Damn straight, kids.

Why? Because I am sick of technology, and yet here I am, on the computer. A la computadora. This new 'Age of Communication' is really one of the loneliest times I think we've ever had, and WE DID THIS. We did this to ourselves.

The people that text constantly, blog constantly, email CONSTANTLY, those people that are lost in a world of tapping fingers and carpal tunnel thumbs--why do they do it so often? Because that "communication", it's not really connection. It's an imitation, a shadow of what they really crave. It's a fix--you get that little shadow, and you know what it is, you know you want more--so you type your heart into those conversations about nothing, and you get nothing in return, and it just leaves you with that little shadow. But you keep doing it, because maybe, just maybe, if you hold those empty little conversations up long enough, you'll get that connection.

You won't, of course, but that doesn't stop the masses from trying.

We have become afraid of face to face conversations. We're afraid of touching, of sharing anything more intimate than a phone call. We're afraid of sharing the time we spend doing nothing.

That is all.