Girl Anachronism
In case anyone missed me to an obscene degree, I was counseling/teaching at a music camp in Howell all last week. Just got back a couple of hours ago. No internet, barely any cell phone use. I was quite busy teaching violin and various other orchestra things to junior high kids.
As I was catching up on my friends list, it occurred to me how much we've grown to depend on the internet as our source of EVERYTHING. I mean, in just a week, people have changed homes, started new relationships, had breakthroughs in their psyche, and I feel a bit anachronistic returning with last week's perception of the world still stuck in my head.
It made me wonder about how communication used to be just 15-20 years ago. Letter-writing. The occasional phone call from a landline. Archaic now, but maybe a little less dramatic. There's too much drama, too much "reality" in television, that our lives (which should move at their own pace) feel pressured to speed up just to compete. Too many peeping toms at the window.
I suppose this is part of the reason why I don't post anything pertaining to my most personal of personal thoughts. Not that I think it will get me in trouble with the network of people I see every day (although it might on occasion), but because I don't want my life to be like telivision and that HYPE OMG-THE-SKY-IS-FUCKING-FALLING-CUZ-PARIS-WENT-BACK-2-JAIL-LOLZ shit just makes my head pound.
Oh, that's probably ancient history anyway. I was too busy scaring pre-teens out of bushes before they impregnated themselves to watch ET and have my manicure retouched.
Maybe this is why I can't write anything. This culture is saturated with hype and changing every second, that i don't know if what i have to write about will even be relevant when completed.
It makes me want to become a monk and take a vow of silence for the rest of my days.
As I was catching up on my friends list, it occurred to me how much we've grown to depend on the internet as our source of EVERYTHING. I mean, in just a week, people have changed homes, started new relationships, had breakthroughs in their psyche, and I feel a bit anachronistic returning with last week's perception of the world still stuck in my head.
It made me wonder about how communication used to be just 15-20 years ago. Letter-writing. The occasional phone call from a landline. Archaic now, but maybe a little less dramatic. There's too much drama, too much "reality" in television, that our lives (which should move at their own pace) feel pressured to speed up just to compete. Too many peeping toms at the window.
I suppose this is part of the reason why I don't post anything pertaining to my most personal of personal thoughts. Not that I think it will get me in trouble with the network of people I see every day (although it might on occasion), but because I don't want my life to be like telivision and that HYPE OMG-THE-SKY-IS-FUCKING-FALLING-CUZ-PARIS-WENT-BACK-2-JAIL-LOLZ shit just makes my head pound.
Oh, that's probably ancient history anyway. I was too busy scaring pre-teens out of bushes before they impregnated themselves to watch ET and have my manicure retouched.
Maybe this is why I can't write anything. This culture is saturated with hype and changing every second, that i don't know if what i have to write about will even be relevant when completed.
It makes me want to become a monk and take a vow of silence for the rest of my days.