My dearest extreme web surfers,
I wasn’t going to write another blog until something
absolutely spectacular happened to me like I got married or won a nobel prize.
What changed I (do not) hear you ask?
My life changed.
This place is addictive as those RPG games like
The Sims and Rollercoaster Tycoon. I was not expecting that. I was expecting to
lose interest a day after my first blog when I realised that the shit I wrote
was just floating around in a sea full of ones and zeros, not to be seen as
anything but a muddled mess. My thoughts were a smudge of plankton in the middle
of the ocean waiting to be pretty much inhaled by a passing sperm whale. If I
was lucky it’d get stuck in his baleen.
While I was working today (Awesome work. I’m sure I’ll
explain later), I had a quick look at my stats. I didn’t even realise I had stats.
What greeted me was the COLD HARD FACT that four people had viewed my first
ever post; people from Australia, Germany, Malaysia and America. Or at least, they’d clicked on my link and
had then been distracted or thought better of it. I dunno, like went out and
ENJOYED THEIR LIVES. I’ve never even
been to Germany and someone was there reading my things. Things that I had
typed into my computer with my very own fingers that I half hoped no one would
read to save my embarrassment and half dreamed that someone like Jonathan
Safran Foer had read it (eek) and asked me to be his protégé. I am sounding like my mother. I digress.
What really got me was that my simple little thoughts were
out in the universe now. My blog was like a tiny bit of space dust settled on a
moon orbiting around a planet which is orbiting around a star which is part of
the Andromeda Galaxy. It’s what your
peripherals have been observing for the past few minutes and it’s one of the
most fucking beautiful things that I have ever seen.
Andromeda is the closest spiral galaxy to our own- a mere
2.5 million light-years away. What of it, hey? Bearing this in mind, it’s hurting towards us
at a rate of 400 light-years every million years. On a date around 4.5 billion years from now
Andromeda will merge with the Milky Way, possibly destroying earth and most of
what we know about our night sky. Not that the human race will still be
plodding around on Earth by then but really, who couldn’t love something so powerful
and foreboding?
I’m so sorry. I will stop with the tenuous analogies.
I feel like I am part of this beautiful entity now. I’ve only recently started reading blogs and
in the past few days I have laughed until my eyes watered and cried until I
laughed at my own hopelessness. Now I have a blood nose. I should take that as
a sign from the universe to shut the fuck up.
But hell, I love you bloggy people. Maybe not all of you,
but enough to be overwhelmed by the mass of individuals that I have never met
but feel like I could entrust my life to. This is what the twenty fuckin’ first
century should be all about.
love
x
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