Drawing a Blank
I've been wanting to write something for a while.
While sitting down in a cafe, I think of something I want to write and say to myself -- I'll blog this when I get home.
Watching a movie by myself, I usually have insights I want to share or simply write down -- but, Facebook & Twitter happens instead.
I miss writing. I miss reading as well... but for the life of me, I just don't feel like it when I find the time.
Thoughts are floating on my mind so eloquently... but with my laptop in front of me - I draw a blank.
I'm watching You've Got Mail at the moment and this is my all-time-feel-good movie. This movie made me realize writing into the void can make you feel better. This movie made me love the internet.
Nowadays, I go online with the intention of writing something -- to relieve stress, anger, rant or rave -- but I end up on Facebook or Twitter. I sort of hate the internet now. It shows you way too much. The "what you don't know won't hurt you" is a little difficult to come by. We can barely concentrate on one thing at a time - first there's multi-tasking doing different stuff with your computer while being online -- now you can even be online looking at several different sites in one browser!
Whatever happened to plain blogging? Emailing collective stories to each other? Snail mail's gone more obsolete than ever now that Email's also become old-fashioned. Who still email people? not much. Most of the time, I use email for work or business related correspondence - customer service, membership queries, etc. Gone were the days when I would write "Dear Blah...."
People were more eloquent when emails were still constructed more formally. Even at work, email writing's become so informal and a little too straight forward. No need for introductions, pleasantries, etc - what you want, who you are and what their options are - that's about it.
You've got mail reminded me how exciting it was to meet strangers online - innocently. No malice, no "date-rape" scenarios in your head, no fear of stalking or crazy people - just plainly meeting strangers and connecting with people who truly have similarities with you.
I digress. I thought, said I was drawing a blank. Now I just babbled.
While sitting down in a cafe, I think of something I want to write and say to myself -- I'll blog this when I get home.
Watching a movie by myself, I usually have insights I want to share or simply write down -- but, Facebook & Twitter happens instead.
I miss writing. I miss reading as well... but for the life of me, I just don't feel like it when I find the time.
Thoughts are floating on my mind so eloquently... but with my laptop in front of me - I draw a blank.
I'm watching You've Got Mail at the moment and this is my all-time-feel-good movie. This movie made me realize writing into the void can make you feel better. This movie made me love the internet.
Nowadays, I go online with the intention of writing something -- to relieve stress, anger, rant or rave -- but I end up on Facebook or Twitter. I sort of hate the internet now. It shows you way too much. The "what you don't know won't hurt you" is a little difficult to come by. We can barely concentrate on one thing at a time - first there's multi-tasking doing different stuff with your computer while being online -- now you can even be online looking at several different sites in one browser!
Whatever happened to plain blogging? Emailing collective stories to each other? Snail mail's gone more obsolete than ever now that Email's also become old-fashioned. Who still email people? not much. Most of the time, I use email for work or business related correspondence - customer service, membership queries, etc. Gone were the days when I would write "Dear Blah...."
People were more eloquent when emails were still constructed more formally. Even at work, email writing's become so informal and a little too straight forward. No need for introductions, pleasantries, etc - what you want, who you are and what their options are - that's about it.
You've got mail reminded me how exciting it was to meet strangers online - innocently. No malice, no "date-rape" scenarios in your head, no fear of stalking or crazy people - just plainly meeting strangers and connecting with people who truly have similarities with you.
I digress. I thought, said I was drawing a blank. Now I just babbled.
