Time for Myself...
So today I just had a “me” day and spent time alone. Right now I am listening to my Jane Zhang youtube playlist and waiting on my dad to bring home some Arby’s for my dinner. I am finally beginning to accept the fact that I can’t change the traumas I experienced in my past. I am still scarred but at least I am not broken.And I am not alone.I was just thinking today about something that happened about a year or two ago. I discovered that my childhood friend and neighbor had also moved back in with her parents and was living in her childhood home. Our backyards are next to each other and our dads’ used to lift us over the fence to play together. We were both sitting at our computers in our childhood bedrooms, and we didn’t even know we were so close to one another until we became friends on Facebook and were chatting online. It is amazing to me how the internet goes to show that the world is so large and yet so small. Most people cannot imagine how many people they actually know or meet in a lifetime, but just look at how large the typical facebook friend list is, and this does not even include all of them. We realize how large the world is and how many people are in it, most of whom we will never even meet or interact with, and yet the world becomes smaller as people oceans apart can communicate in seconds due to the hyper-speed of the internet. We are the social media generation. We are part of a revolution and a new way of living. We saw communication transformed before our eyes. I think our generation shares much in common with the generations who saw the invention of the film, or the telephone, or the automobile. Being able to connect with you, my followers, online and to share my story gives me hope and makes me feel less alone in the world, more connected. I look forward to learning more about you all. I promise to post my poetry as soon as I get it copyrighted, so you will be the first to read it.