A Moment of Revelation....
Hazaa! While making comment on John's (Yes London, I can't bring myself to call him that anymore for some reason...) latest Blog entry. I had one of those amzingly simple, yet revolutionary moments where you realize something that has been developing over some time.
Here is the backdrop: While typing out my comment I went back and clicked Sharon's username, sending me to her blog, which I had know previous knowledge of. I read it then realized that I hadn't read some other friends blog in some time. This is where it hit me, like a ton of bricks falling from a C-47 military Transport. Since the beginning of the summer, I feel that I have become more in tune with my friends and their respective lives. I think that the main reason for this is the chronicling of their daily lives on a medium known as the internet. All of these blogs that have popped up since the beginning of the summer give me and my friends a peek at the daily grind or exciting moments that may never be shared in a formal setting since they may bedeemed as mundane or not as important as other matters at hand.
Not only have the blogs helped me get more in tune with my friends, but they have taken our relationships as friends into another dimension entirely. We are used to the whole group being together for activities and the like. While this is great, it seems to me that the blogs have opened the avenue for individuals to shine in their own way. Each blog is owned by an individual and is a chance for them to talk about what they want to. The content of the blogs is completely conversation independant, by this I mean that it is not governed by the topic of immediate conversation unless the author wants to comment upon a set of ideas going around. Even then though, the author has a chance to carefully choose their words and let their full emotion, knowledge, and/or thoughts be brought to light. I have found that this difference, that is immediate response versus a timely response, makes a huge difference in the way the conversation comes across and is recieved.
I guess this may not be so revolutionary, but I indeed have enjoyed this recent development and STRONGLY encourage all of you, my friends, to continue this experience known as blogging.
3 Comments:
I'd have to agree. This whole blog (I'm humoring you guys now) thing has been a good idea. I love the way you can just talk to yourself on them, because I do it all the time off the computer.
Plus it is nice to see how we are all doing, even though we have members of our gang in three different states now.
It is also true that we are able to understand each other more now that we have these journals. I'm sure there's things about me that you guys didn't know before reading my weblog.
Interesting that you used "like a ton of bricks falling from a C-47 military transport." The C-47 has been out of regular flight for like 50 years now. You should have used "like a .50 caliber bullet coming from Buff_Adam's sniper gun" :-P
Alright, despite the fact that I go to an aviation school, I don't know aircraft very well. What can I say, hmm?
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