Connections - 2005.11.16

I embarked on this journey through cyberspace before many people had ever even thought of having a personal computer in thier home... since then I have been connected to this great cosmic global force of information and along the way I have met some rather interesting people.. Some I still call friends, some I can truthfully say have been lovers and others I wouldn't be near ever again even if my life depends on it..

This entire time in this vitual world, I have had the desire to connect with people... Sometimes that connection happens purely at a virtual level, othertimes it has had the opportunity to manifest itself into a physical friendship outside of the bits and bytes..  And sometimes the inverse is true as well, this digital cosmos allowing friends to stay in contact with each other, sharing photos, blogs, text messages, emails etc.

I came to myspace by pure accident.. I don't even remember how I ended up here.. It wasn't invitation based, it just happened... Since that time, I have had an opportunity to reaquaint myself with former classmates and friends that have dropped off the face of my reality as well as meet some really cool people that I believe to have the authenticity for life that I thrive on...

Along those same lines, I look around myspace from time to time, seeing who is out there that I might know and I see a lot of people that are on here as comment whores and picture whores and friend collectors.. 

As some of you may have read, I did chop my friend list down today... If you got cut and want re-added... just ask... But I am on here not to collect pictures or virtual friends but to meet people that have similar values to my own and enrich my life and thiers through dialog and discussion.

Now I embark on a different journey... That of reacquainting myself with a long thought lost acquaintance from my high school career...  Things have happened fast and they have hit us both hard... mostly because she lives in another state and the meshing of our personalities so far is going extremely well...  I don't know where this trip will take me.. I don't know the destination... But I know that the support network I have made on here and in my physical life will hopefully support my decision to see where this journey takes me.

Seven days and counting until Thanksgiving and I get an opportunity to become reacquainted with someone I thought long out of my life... May God have his hand on my shoulder as I embark on this path.