Where am I? Who are you? What am I doing here?

Where am I?

Holy crap it's been a while.  So much has changed since I was last here I'm honestly shocked Google hasn't outright dropped Blogger altogether by now.  I ran through many of the old blogs I used to follow and it almost seems as if we all left together between the years of 2009 - 2013.

Now... we have 15-30 second snippets of stupidity on Snapchat and TikTok to entertain us.  No discourse just yelling in ALL CAPS, insults and team fighting.

This blog... I created to encourage discourse.  I took sometimes intentionally antagonistic perspectives for the sake of argument and often at times even went beyond my boundaries for the sake of instigating said discussion.  It was a different era and I do regret much of it in retrospect.  In today's world more attention is placed on the power of words and the intent behind them.  I was more intent on entertainment of communication than I was for the well being of individuals and their mental health.

Who are you?

Each and every single one of us still here have gone through so much to begin to post my personal story would be borderline trivial and ultimately inconsequential.  This was never a blog about my own life but a blog about the world at large.  It's so different now posting commentary about myself or the silliness of it all would be meaningless.

What am I doing here?

There has always been a lot of suffering in this world and the bittersweet gift of social media has made us both painfully aware of its existence and simultaneously provided us a whole new way to bring more pain and suffering to each other.  The false promise of anonymity has infected many of us with a sense of liberty to open our minds and mouth to verbal diarrhea that has flooded the entire planet.  So the question on my mind is Am I back to blogging?  No.  There is no point anymore.  The world is already actively sharing the horrible thoughts it has in more ways than I care to extract any further.  So why am I here?  In real life, I am a heavily anti-social introvert.  I struggle to take strides or make any efforts to either make or maintain friendships.

It's not that I don't want them, I do.
It's not that I don't need them, I do.  
I have yet to find a great number of individuals that truly like and accept me for what I am through and through.

When I used to blog and post and create content I met some folks.  Some temporary, some long term.  These individuals I met sometimes disagreed with me.  Other times we agreed.  What I appreciated the most though was even through those days when we disagreed there were some individuals that never lost respect or disrespected each other.  To those people I wanted to come on here to say thank you.  I hope you are OK and I hope you are doing well in this very different world we live in.

It has been an amazing run.  I miss the simpler days but I am prepared for whatever comes next.  I hope you are too and I have nothing but well wishes for you all.  I hope your Gods, your stars, your fortunes or yourselves bring you nothing but good days ahead.

Peace to you all,

G

If you care to keep in touch reach out and I will provide other methods of contact if we aren't already friends elsewhere.