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I’m sorry to disappoint my “millions of readers” but I won’t be posting for a while. I just moved into a new place and I don’t even have furniture yet, let alone a computer. I’ve got an air mattress, a dresser and desk built into the walls, and a night stand made out of shoe boxes. Plus, internet cafes aren’t exactly cheap down here. So, be patient. I’ll be back. And when I do come back, be prepared for some seriously awesome posts!
Thanks for bearing with me!
Childhood Childhood, letter, teddy bear 10:55 pm
My original idea for today is going to take longer than I anticipated. It will be posted at a later date.
So, I gave myself 10 minutes to come up with a new idea and 15 minutes to write it.
I decided to write a letter to my favorite teddy bear.
Dear Boofer,
I found you on my bed Christmas morning when I was two years old. I don’t know how I came up with your name. Do you know?
From that first moment, I loved you (I think.)
I have pictures of me wearing pink footie pajamas and hugging you with a great big smile on my face. We were almost the same size back then.
You were with me throughout my childhood. Always in my bed or somewhere in my bedroom, safe and sound. At night, I hugged you tight. Even when I had other stuffed animals and dolls in bed with us, I always held you closest.
You even had a girlfriend once! Remember Bloomer? I always made sure that she was on the other side of you at night. Whatever happened to her?
We used to have conversations together with me speaking in my voice and then in yours. Your voice was much deeper than mine and it always made me yawn.
When I would play school (with me as the teacher and all my other toys as students) you were always my star pupil. You knew all the right answers!
I read stories to you and you listened so well.
You absorbed so many of my tears. If you had tears, I would have absorbed them for you.
Even as I got older, I still held on to you. Life threw me some curveballs, but you were there to help me so I didn’t get knocked out.
I swear I could see emotions in your eyes. When I was sad, you looked sad, too. If I forgot you at home while I stayed over a friend’s house, you looked decidedly angry when I got back.
When we moved in with Nana, Pepper tore your left arm open. I was so mad at him! Your arm is better now… kinda. I stitched it up myself, but you lost some stuffing. It’s a bit limp now.
Where your ribbon was, I can see a strip of fur almost as clean and fluffy as the day we met. You’re now stained and nubby, but you don’t mind, do you? It just shows that there was once a little girl who couldn’t bear to be without you (no pun intended.)
Now, here we are, 1,000 miles apart. I still miss you sometimes; when I go to bed at night, or when I need someone to absorb my tears. Please don’t think I abandoned you. You’re safe at Momma’s house. We’ll be together again soon.
All my love,
Anastasia
P.S. Do you remember when I gave you a bath? I was afraid to put you in the washing machine, so I washed you in the bathtub as if you were my child. Then I hung you up by your feet to dry. Those nights while you were drying, I had trouble falling asleep. I have trouble falling asleep now.
Speculation computers, technology 7:37 pm
My computer at work crashed this morning. It happens. Computers will, from time to time, do things to piss you off. When you are suddenly without all your files, without the internet, and (in my case) without your reservations system, you realize how much you depend on technology. Computers and the internet really do put the world at our fingertips.
What would we do if we no longer had this modern day oracle? What would we do with no modern technology at all?
Some people think humanity would crumble.
I seriously doubt that.
We survived just fine without all this “fancy technology” for quite a long time. Why wouldn’t we be able to do that now?
You argue that the average person has become so dependent on it that one would simply not know what to do in its absence.
You could argue that corporations, banks, and practically every other business, are run largely by computers and losing that would cause massive economic downfall.
You could argue that people, deprived of their internet porn (after all, any fan of Avenue Q can tell you “The internet is for porn.”) would go on a crime rampage–Rape, pillage, and plunder, just like the vikings–and that there’d be massive looting and bank robbery since surveillance systems and so many other security measures are computerized.
You could even argue that people would commit murder or suicide out of sheer boredom.
For these last two especially, I’d tell you that you’re overreacting.
Realistically speaking, we, as a society, would probably be crippled for a while. We might have to revert back to the way of life of the pre-telegraph days. We already have the knowledge that these things (cell phones, television, computers) can be made and can work, though. So it wouldn’t be long before people start recreating them.
Imagine kids in school reading a text book that says, “Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. John Q. Public re-invented the telephone in 2015.”
Maybe losing those ever-convenient things, like email and text messaging, might make us remember how to be human again. How to talk to other people, and, at the very least, how to write a frickin’ letter!
Don’t get me wrong, here. I’m not saying that I wish we could do away with all this technology. I’m as dependent on it as most other people. I like it. I could survive without it, though. So could you. So could the human race in general.
At least, that’s what I think.
What do you think would happen if all technology was somehow lost?
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