Wasting time.

[witchscauldron]

The internet is a massive waste of time. That's what it does. There's information out there, good discussions, interesting pages, beauitful things...but finding it is mostly like sifting through a combination of dandruff and horse shit looking for a pearl, or a diamond. Once you do it long enough your allergies are going berserk and you can't get rid of the smell, even if you were clever enough to wear a hazmat suit.

I'm exhausted with this game. The constant ridiculous refrains..."I can predict the weather because I'm a psychic wolf angel." Or "My mother is a 8th generation traditional Wiccan and YES you can self-initiate." Or "The Morrigan loves cinnamon incense and vodka, and she's a loving mother goddess who's been evilly maligned into a hateful war crone. She leaves me love and pixie dust and feathers everywhere - teehee!"

I find I don't read things anymore. I skim, looking for that jewel in the dung...and I find them less and less often. I don't want to talk to people about my faith online, or my beliefs. I feel like it goes over a lot of heads, and for the most part they don't care...they just want someone to listen to how Frejya ate breakfast with them or whatever.

If only I had something more worthwhile to do...then I could stop looking at this trainwreck-esque pile of electrons, and have a real damn life.

-M.

Comments

[yelth.livejournal.com]

You and I seem to be on a common wavelength lately.

[sowelu.livejournal.com]

heh... I agree so very much, especially the first paragraph. The internet really is largely a waste of time and the stuff it does never really goes away.

It seems like most people who stay on the internet and hate it, do so because of some lack of a real life... thing is, real lives don't magically appear without help, they don't fix themselves without effort, and they don't go anywhere unless you spend time living in them. There are rare occasions, like meeting local people online. But for the most part... even if you feel like your real life isn't worth living in right now, you still need to in order to turn it into something you want to live in. Nothing's free.

[morgandria.livejournal.com]

Hey there. :)

I actually have a pretty decent life away from teh intarweeb, and some damn awesome friends. If it weren't for the fact that most of those friends live too far away to see locally on a daily basis, I'd probably be online a lot less. I keep using it to keep in touch with those friends.

I've just been grumpy and sick for a while, which hasn't been helped much by the fact that Mercury retrograde this month seems to be making most people whiny - and whiny online, where I have to read it. :p When I'm depressed, the last thing I want to deal with is people. Period.

I'm away for the weekend, at least, at my folks. I'm 26 next weekend. I'm going to a gorgeous lake on the Labour Day weekend to sit amongst rocks and trees with friends. I'm all over the real life thing - I just wish sometimes real life was a little less mundane (ie. sickness and poorness and stupidity), and all you cool people lived closer.

-M.