Silly frustrations
Today I found out something pretty disturbing. I've lost the first half of my adolencent years. I was into a whole lot a forums and sites, and today I found out that a bunch of my old accounts containing poems, pictures or whatever are lost for ever!
- Why?
I've been a victim of time suspendation, if that's even a word. Apparently, whenever I've been busy creating something new or checking out new sites like Facebook or something, time is fighting myself from years back. The person I was in 2003-2005 is entirely different from who I am now, but however I really would like to see what I used to be. But, since I haven't been keeping things up to date or logging in to my old spaces and poet sites, the stuff that used to mean the world to be are lost. That really annoys me! I don't want to read my new poems or check out my new spaces and websites because it's so new that I already know what's on them! What I want to do right now is to take a nice trip to the past and reflect on people I knew back then, music that I was into and perhaps re-discover films and perhaps even friends that somehow got lost in the maze.
It just makes me sad and pretty much frustrated. In fact it makes me even a bit afraid. If I'm lost in the internet world, now in 2007, when I'm 19 and supposed to know everything that's happening tomorrow, what will it be like when I'm 40 or 50? This does not look good.
I guess I'm just a bit paranoid, but the world will eventually lose itself in the giant black vaccuum that is the internet. We will somehow be able to have the whole world in our own living room just by turning on our computer. We don't have to go outside, no!, we'll just upload some pictures and have a live video feed from the bush down-under! We don't have to go out at clubs of anything to meet new people, no!, we'll log on our chat - rooms and make our own little 3-D animated version of us and have a ball!
I'm going to be so bold and predict that by the year 3000, humans will not be a creature living out-doors. No! We'll build tunnels and tubes to transport us where we want to go, we'll plant micro chips under our skins so we'll have what ever dire information required to survive in the great city-jungle, right under our noses or should I say thigh.
There is some positive aspects to this, without a doubt. We have become much more aware of other cultures and religions than before. Although it's difficult to see right now, eventually everyone will know everything about each other's faiths and ways of life, because the information is just a computer away.
What I'd prefer though, instead of conecting the world by electronics, we should connect physically. What better way is there to learn more about certain cultures than to travel it's location. Want to learn about Islam? Go to a mosque, speak to a muslim, all we have to do is ask. Want to know how the african tribes live? Seek them and see for yourself.
Instead of your computer, use yourself!
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