it is sad to see so many people dependent on the attention they receive in the cyber world. somehow getting 20 likes on an instagram picture boosts our self-image, and if there are multiple comments on a fb status? pop-u-laaar! you see my point? the satisfaction is fleeting. will any of it matter 5 years from now?
ali's dad joked that the day facebook crashes, people will walk the streets holding their family albums and shout, "look at these photos! do you like them? do you??". i wouldn't be surprised. people can get pretty nuts.
i'm not certain where i'm going with any of this except to say that for me the cyber world has lessened in personal meaning. i still look at facebook and i do love to instagram, but i don't have this dire urge to share myself with the world wide web. the cyber sphere can be so obtuse and superficial, simply a void filling a void. human beings are real and intimate.
in the infancy of this blog i wrote to proclaim myself on paper. these days my writing frequency has diminished not because i don't have anything to say but because i've already told most of my stories and opinions to mr. k. and he's the one whose reaction i care most about. he has my best interest at heart. he's not afraid to tell me when i'm being ridiculous but he's always there to help me catch my breath after crying. none of that can come from the cyber world.
now here comes my little challenge to you-- don't hold yourself back in personal relationships. let the cyber world fall down a few priorities and focus on reality. focus on things that will matter 5 years from now. allow others to hear you-- the full unadulterated you, flaws and all. as corny as it sounds, you'll never understand the freedom of love and friendship until you give it your all. i didn't. but now i'm so grateful i tried. "because if you haven't tried you haven't lived."
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