One would think that being dumped via text message is a bad thing. Well it's not okay!!? There is no awkward conversation, no hums and haa's (takes too much time to text that in), just a nice, crisp font that says "I think we should take things slower between you and I, is that alright with you?" And then it's over, just like that (well, Bun Bun can attest to that fact that it wasn't over just like that, but I would like to keep my dignity and say it was). I flip the cell phone closed and say goodbye to the last 4 wks of my life. Oh the drama that is me.
Betina is right. Ever since Facebook has entered my life 4 wks ago (as did that certain someone...correlation anyone?) I have not been blogging near as much. You know, my friend Josh recently commented on the fact that all this cyber communication is turning us into fiction. I would have to concur. I just finished reading Tuesday's with Morrie and it got me thinking about all the realtionships I have in my life. How many of them do I actually drink in and enjoy? How many of them do I actually experience? Not many. Granted, some of the people I love the very most are really really ridiculously far away so cyber communication is a must, but with those that are right around me (this category includes those that are in a 6 hr driving radius of me) that I love and cherish...I don't spend half as much time with them as I should.
If all I do is cyber-communicate with people how am I suppose to know what is real and what is not? Even talking with my sisters on the phone it seems that the truth about my many mini-relationships/life always seems to come out after the impersonal text msg or the dtr.... now, if they were around me 24/7 as the bun bun is, they would know it all and just shake their heads and say "I told you so" (right little bunny?). Cyber-communication allows me to let out as much as I want, when I want, and how I want. I mean, for the most part it is all the truth...it just comes in spouts at my disgression. And some of it...ya, fiction. You know it Josh.
Pretty soon my ficticous lifestory will be in print under Dewey Decimal 009 "not assigned, or no longer used".
2 woot-woots!:
THank you thank you, a post! I think your life is very interesting. It is wierd, how we are all connected to some electronic thing in the effort to connect with someone... anyone!
However, in cases like with our family we must use these artificial ways to communicate, otherwise we would not know each other at all.
hey P i'm so glad you wrote on this thing! if you are going to be one of my only Blog Buddies you need to work a little harder at our cyberrelationship. j/k.
maybe in some ways we're becoming more fiction, but there is a lot of good in this whole internet networking thing... as long as everyone is a little bit cautious, and stick with friends we actually know in real life! ... and as long as we don't give up on the relationships with people that are still around us. it's all about balance.
maybe we do hold back some of the little tidbits to make ourselves seem wiser or more justified or whatever... but hey P if you want to vent about someone and not tell me the part about what you may have done wrong feel free!! that is what friends are for, whether as cyberfriends or inthefleshfriends.
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