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I’m not one for personal notes in the public eye, so you’ll have to forgive my callous writing. It’s been a pretty tough few months – the economy is downright rotten and from the perspective of a recent college graduate (~2 years) finding work is no picnic. I will say that my experiences thus far have granted me an appreciation for living in the moment. I’m terrible at living in the moment. I think younger people as a whole are probably pretty bad at it.
As we all age and continue to barrel towards our inevitable end, we’re forced to come to terms with our mortality and begin to consciously remind ourselves to be more appreciative of the present. Still though, so much of our lives our wasted worrying about building a career, buying a house, starting a family, supporting a family, paying off loans, or in my case finding a job – while I do believe these goals are all positive and with merit, I don’t believe one should allow worry concerning these goals to override their enjoyment of what they are currently doing. It is hard though – quite frankly I stink at it. I find I must constantly remind myself to let go, and even then I tend to forget to do it.
You’ve heard it many times before from many different source no doubt, but I’m going to say it again – (times may be tough, but) life’s too short to worry.
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An excerpt from “The Ventures of Jimmy E. Jones”
I've always had a bit of problem with airing (my) more personal subject matter directly to the public. The concept of the blog (and now vlog but not quite as heavily) in sharing with a blanketed-quantity mass the inner workings of your mind or perhaps simply a dabbling in your habitual doings not only seems wholly trivial, but more so somewhat risky. Now I’m not some crazed conspirator locked in his basement, food rations and m16 at hand for the coming hamster invasion, but what happens some years down the road when one such conspirator who has written an application to scan the posts of individuals such as yourself, is able to reconstruct a reasonably detailed record of your life and use it with malicious intent? What if you’re credit record is slandered by numerous fraudulent mass lug nut orders? I personally can’t stand lug nuts, they make for horrid party favors.
Humans are social creatures, we like to communicate chit-chat with those we consider favorable or of merit for our inner circle – but how far is too far? Social Sites such as Facebook have done a nice job of allowing users to set custom protection for sensitive materials such as personal information and images, while other sites and open source applications leave content open to the public. We bring light to what I like to refer to as the lag factor – the period of time it takes before a new technology is a) accepted and widely used by more than today’s youth, b) the time it takes for the app to realize it’s being taken seriously or suffers a privacy infraction, and c) the time it takes for the general mass of users to acclimate to the new service provided (learn how to actually) employ it effectively for their own good. Point c specifically requires scrutiny as so many users are ignorant to the existence of such privacy settings. With technological advances in communicatory methods, many future generations will inevitably live through their own security-lax lag periods. Lug nuts for everyone!
How will this affect the face of communication for the future you might ask? Well, to this I cannot be certain, but the words hive mind come to..well mind. Envision a world bereft of fuzzy bunnies, fluffy clouds and happy flying llamas – nightmarish no? Instead imagine an existence filled with constant noise, buzzing as far as the mind can project. The next time you’re posting a blog entry with the intention of sharing your weekend holiday shopping extravaganza with your best friends Susan and Raul think Zerg, and be afraid!
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