It's funny - I was reading Mommy Needs Coffee this morning, and her post really struck a nerve with me. She said her worlds were colliding - mine are too.
And, strangely enough, in the same way.
It's all Facebook's fault.
Do you compartmentalize your life, too? I think that most people probably do. You have your family in one compartment, work friends in another, maybe your church friends and neighbors are in a couple of other ones. Then, you have your online friends - and those can even be compartmentalized further - mine are.
I have my art-blogger-friends and my mommy-blogger-friends and my homeschool-blogger-friends and all these old-high-school-chum-friends and so on and so on...
My Google reader window has Dissociative Disorder.
All this to say - my world has both expanded and contracted exponentially since I left home for college. I now have friends all over the world and those friends can become friends with each other with just a few keystrokes. For someone like me who has been kind of a loner all my life, it's quite disconcerting. I start watching the news with a different eye. I see wildfires in California and immediately worry about Marta and her firefighter-husband Rudy. There are tsunami in the South Pacific and I wonder if they are affecting Ai and her family.
A hurricane blows into the Texas Gulf Coast and I am immediately concerned about Stefani and Heather. You see my point? That's a lot for one OCD hermit to keep track of.
Except that its really good. I've found friends I've not heard from in over 20 years. I keep in touch with those that I love dearly and don't see nearly enough (here and here). I've met new people, and lurked on the edges of a thousand parties, all while soaking in the goodness of it.
It's like one giant neighborhood, and there's a block party all the time.
I like my neighbors.
Do you?
Your poor poor Google reader...
ReplyDelete;-D And yes, I know what you mean!
Yes, I do that too - worry about Blogger friends (I hope I still have some :( !!) I'm a loner too, and wonder how it would be if we all got together, I'm sure some of us are very different to how we come across in print! I was thinking of you last week when a reporter was standing near that huge monument in DC, I never noticed how absolutely ginormous it was until I saw your photo!
ReplyDeleteSo true, Diahn! Sometimes it becomes a bit overwhelming, but mostly it's such an amazing feeling to feel close to people all over the world.
ReplyDeletei once heard someone say that the world is now like a village, so true!
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