Emantable

Not sure what brought me back here. Perhaps the seemingly endless typing I was doing earlier today for some work documents I’ve been trying to catch up on over the weekend. Perhaps it was the You’ve Got Mail movie I was watching yesterday that made me think back to those times when the internet was mostly typing back and forth, and when you’d have to wait a minute or two for a picture to slowly reveal itself on screen. AI can write something better and faster along these lines, but there’s something special about seeing your own words fill the page and getting stuck here and there as you search for the right word to continue. As self-centered as it may seem, I contemplate starting to blog solely about my thoughts and experiences like the old-fashioned blogs of decades ago. No response to trends. No searching for a way to go viral. Just an online and public journal that no one may ever read. Two quotes from the character Kathleen Kelly of You’ve Got Mail come to mind.

“The odd thing about this form of communication is that you’re more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.”

“I don’t really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good-night, dear void”