Mind Blowing
I grew up in a small run down suburb in Massachusetts but to me it wasn't run down, it was home. I had dreams and aspirations like most, most of them either took to far away places and living a carefree life but reality bit me in the ass and I never went beyond the dull side of mediocre. My life after completing high school was work, chores and writing and listening to music. I never saw my life going beyond that, I thought for sure I would end up dying on the very street I grew up on. To me I lived in a small nut shell of existence.
When I moved to Florida, not so willingly, there was a slight shift in my outlook. I drove more, I had a vast variety of jobs, some I really liked and some I didn't and I got a broader taste of different kinds of people. My life was kind of the same like swimming in a pool; lots of kicking and getting wet but not really getting anywhere. To me that is how I viewed life or my life and I thought for sure I would have to settle for someone or something just because it was within reach.
I was very reluctant to learn the computer, I felt I was too stupid to learn it and feared it but I was given a computer and barely enough instructions to go beyond email. From there I quickly learned from trial and error. What opened things up for me was that after awhile I was chatting with guys from Australia , then England and Ireland, holy freaking crap, my mind was being blown. I never ever saw myself talking with anybody from other countries on a computer.
Fast forward 2015 due to a couple of losses back in 2013 that had profoundly influenced where I am today, I have made connections with people from all over the world. I am corresponding with people in countries I merely read about in school. My poetry and writings are being viewed by people I may never meet whether it's on my blogs or my about me page; that in itself is so uplifting to me. Life can get better even if it somehow stays the same. Had I stayed in fear mode of the computer I would have never met some of the people I hold near and dear to me or published a book or been inspired by those I have crossed paths with.
When I moved to Florida, not so willingly, there was a slight shift in my outlook. I drove more, I had a vast variety of jobs, some I really liked and some I didn't and I got a broader taste of different kinds of people. My life was kind of the same like swimming in a pool; lots of kicking and getting wet but not really getting anywhere. To me that is how I viewed life or my life and I thought for sure I would have to settle for someone or something just because it was within reach.
I was very reluctant to learn the computer, I felt I was too stupid to learn it and feared it but I was given a computer and barely enough instructions to go beyond email. From there I quickly learned from trial and error. What opened things up for me was that after awhile I was chatting with guys from Australia , then England and Ireland, holy freaking crap, my mind was being blown. I never ever saw myself talking with anybody from other countries on a computer.
Fast forward 2015 due to a couple of losses back in 2013 that had profoundly influenced where I am today, I have made connections with people from all over the world. I am corresponding with people in countries I merely read about in school. My poetry and writings are being viewed by people I may never meet whether it's on my blogs or my about me page; that in itself is so uplifting to me. Life can get better even if it somehow stays the same. Had I stayed in fear mode of the computer I would have never met some of the people I hold near and dear to me or published a book or been inspired by those I have crossed paths with.