Midlife crisis???
So tell me....are midlife crisis' happening earlier these days?
My recent return to the online world has shown me that much has changed in the past few years while I've been too busy to check in regularly with my online friends.
It would seem that chatrooms are obsolete (pretty much were last time I looked anyway), not too sure if mIRC is still happening, I just know that the last channel I used was well and truely gone before I up and disappeared.
L/J has slowed down, or at least my friends list has....could be that I have neglected everyone who posted frequently and as a consequence lost them from my list...
MSN still seems to be quite popular, but having an old list, again I have lost most of my contacts there also.
Forums and blogs seem to be the way to go. However they don't have the same real-time feel to them as a good ole chat room.
This has lead me to question why I'm suddenly feeling this strong desire to get online and chat with people I haven't had time for in a long while.
Do we, as life tends to get stressful and move at a faster pace, try to revert to a simpler time? Am I just trying to recapture my youth?
I don't feel old, I'm proud to tell anyone who wants to know that I'm 30 next year. And while I have a lot happening in my life, it's things I'm excited about and enjoying, so why would I want to escape them?
If I'm not having an early mid-life crisis, then what the hell am I doing here?
My recent return to the online world has shown me that much has changed in the past few years while I've been too busy to check in regularly with my online friends.
It would seem that chatrooms are obsolete (pretty much were last time I looked anyway), not too sure if mIRC is still happening, I just know that the last channel I used was well and truely gone before I up and disappeared.
L/J has slowed down, or at least my friends list has....could be that I have neglected everyone who posted frequently and as a consequence lost them from my list...
MSN still seems to be quite popular, but having an old list, again I have lost most of my contacts there also.
Forums and blogs seem to be the way to go. However they don't have the same real-time feel to them as a good ole chat room.
This has lead me to question why I'm suddenly feeling this strong desire to get online and chat with people I haven't had time for in a long while.
Do we, as life tends to get stressful and move at a faster pace, try to revert to a simpler time? Am I just trying to recapture my youth?
I don't feel old, I'm proud to tell anyone who wants to know that I'm 30 next year. And while I have a lot happening in my life, it's things I'm excited about and enjoying, so why would I want to escape them?
If I'm not having an early mid-life crisis, then what the hell am I doing here?