Where we are Now
By: Robert Walker Aka Num
Tags: Internet, Writing, Life, Learning, Technology

Where we are Now

I’m not happy with the way that the internet has made me, or should I really say that I have just noticed how the internet has made me.

Photo by Anshu A on Unsplash

I was just browsing a health site because I’m interested in that and I was dealing with a WhatsApp message at the same time, so I was back and forth for a few minutes, and when I returned back to the website I had forgotten what I was looking at, and I was drawn to a search bar that asked what I was looking for? you know where you enter a subject, etc., and press the search icon?

How easy has it become to click into that empty space and wait for the drop-down menu to appear?

How easy have things become where we don’t have to think about what we’re doing, we just click?

The internet is clever!

And we’d be lost without it too!

But how many of you have actually realised that it’s changing the way that we think?

I was actually looking for the drop-down as if it was second nature, and when there wasn’t a drop-down I got stuck. Hence being here to tell you lot.

What’s made me feel so deliciously happy though is that it was second nature for me to come here in the first place and to start writing.

We don’t need drop-downs!

It’s hard to remember these days when we used to have to send everything via the post. Who remembers pen pals where some of us would write to someone in another town/city/county? The very start of wider communication and look at us now.

We’re worldwide, and I just love it!

Hello to you where ever you are and I get so much pleasure at being able to say that knowing that in an instant after I’ve published you’ll be able to read me.

If the world is not such a bigger place as we once thought, it’s definitely a lot smaller now that we can touch each other so readily with words.

Maybe it’s just me?

My computer is my life.

I look, every day through this screen into a world where everything is at my fingertips. I have a mind that quickly flits from one thing to another and my pc screen with all of its easily obtainable windows can keep up.

I’m in heaven.

If only I had someone to talk to I really don’t think I’d know what to say.

I’ve started listening to 2 females talking over a podcast called REDHANDED where they talk about true crime. I accidentally came across it while working away on a website that I’m building and saved it to listen to a bit later on that evening. What’s appealing to me is hearing their lovely London accented voices and their beautiful sweet intelligent minds. If it wasn’t for that I don’t think I’d bother listening as what they talk about are the most horrific true crimes that I’ve ever heard. SHOCKING! But put into the context of what they are doing and where they’re coming from it makes really good listening.

They have a show called ‘Under The Duvet’ too, I’ve not listened yet but I think a subscription is on the cards, for me at least.

My every day is full of me.

I rarely see or hear anyone apart from my own thoughts and occasionally when I talk to myself. I’m not complaining! I like my own company and this internet thing on my computer keeps me more than occupied. Ah! I kind of dread the day when I’m not here as much and I have to go to work.

I’ve started to write on paper, with a real pen.

I actually surprised myself earlier on. I lay on my bed listening to an audiobook called Zero Negativity and as I always do when I listen to good audiobooks, I make notes. What I’d usually do is make a bookmark in the app but while listening to it through my television I couldn’t add a clip so I rushed to the living room to grab a pen and some paper.

Hey, it’s a free world.

And sometimes it’s refreshing to ‘not rely on technology’.

We can’t manage without it tho, can we?

Not now we can’t, it’s too ingrained in us and society and we need it, it’s a way of life.

I feel sad for all of those people who have an idea of it and can’t behold it as we do. Maybe feeling sad isn’t the right word. I wonder what it must be like to hear about and see it and want it but can’t get it is what I mean. Is that sad?

Where we are now is at a tipping point in my view.

What with the pandemic and the climate problems that we have, and that the world has never been so closely knit together because we all need to make things right and stop the changes that are happening.

Technology just brings us closer together and more and more are finding it.

Just look at Medium now.

There has never been so many writing about so much in one place, and when I think of all the other places that there are to write and share on the internet, with all of the drop-down menus and technology-led ways of doing things it makes me wonder who else has been trapped by that dupe and that one day this all will be full up too and where then do we go?