The Sound of Tomorrow

My plants are doing very well, though I am concerned with my munchkin broccoli asfrom the start it was looking a little leggy but hopefully once I can get my hands on a decent fertilizer it will do better. The garlic is growing fantastic, as well as my green beans. I am very proud of myself as this is the first real long term project I've had in a while. It's definitely given me something to do while everyone is social distancing and quarantined and generally feeling isolated and lonely.

And believe me when I say I am no stranger to isolation.

I spend a lot of time online, I think everyone does to some extent. However, very rarely do I directly interact with others, save for my close friends and those I share discord servers with. We live in strange times where everyone lives in a bubble, and is expected to to be part of and interact with that bubble.

That...poses a bit of an issue for a person such as myself, who can barely use the phone and prefers to stay silent rather than talk your ear off. In an age of social media, in an age where your life is broadcast for the world to see, what does one do if one doesn't wish to partake?

I bit the bullet today and reactivated my instagram, something I thought I'd never do again to be perfectly honest. For the longest time I was content to exist purely in the abstract. An outlier to most people my age, and most people older than myself as well. However, given the circumstances, I do believe this will be mostly beneficial.

The world is in a tumultuous place right now, and things are more lonely than ever. And even I can't avoid everything forever I guess. So this is me, trying in vain to make myself accessible to those who may wish to contact me. Instead of relying on just a home phone and my ravens.

I've been fighting to keep myself as closed off and away from things that might be considered social for so long, that I've isolated myself from my family, friends, and others my age. But damn if I'm going to just sit here and let the world pass me by. So I made a deal with myself - I will reactivate my instagram, and I will create a dreamwidth. That is all. I play by my own rules and I refuse to fall prey to the standards foisted upon me by a bubble that only cares about how much revenue my user data can generate.

So yeah. That's all I have to say right now.