and here is the real

i wandered the web for however long i was gone from here and found nothing appealing to the real... facebook no longer feels real to me, it's just another distraction from real life, just another way to avoid actual communication... leaving notes for people when they are not available is one thing, but posting public messages to no one or even sending group messages to anyone when actual interactive contact can be shared by phone is avoiding the contact and less satisfying for me than ever before... living with a real person has something to do with that, but being online for more than two decades also puts the whole key-tapping lifestyle into perspective...

as does this: a wake up call for us all (are you online too much?... is your online activity affecting your real life offline?... hope it's positive for you)... as for me, i'll keep my updates here (or wherever the next stop is for my endless babbling) as i've been doing since i first learned to write and use the written word for myself as i do (ask if you don't understand what i mean by that) for me and posterity and anyone who cares, but i hope, if you find my daily updates here or anywhere, that you give me a call and/or come on over and make it real...

enjoy your life and treasure it and everyone who is really in it and please try to remember, life is offline, here we share words for a moment and that's nice, sweet, great, and sometimes wonderful, but the real people who matter are flesh and blood right there in your physical space...

i appreciate you sharing words here or anything online... but you are welcome to make it more real and meaningful by calling or sharing offline even more, for it is then, offline, in the flesh, that matters most...