Bring Me Down

One of my best, good friends was over at our house a few days back. How it's always good to see friends. If you're following my posts, she's one of those many that I have smart conversations with. As usual, we updated and talked about a lot of things; considering that we are 'friending' each other on Facebook and we can see each other's updates, it STILL is not enough. One of our topics was blogs.

I was blogging since 2004, I always know this. I started in LiveJournal and eventually migrated to Multiply and now, here. I was writing on and off and most of the time, the reason is the ability to get online and be connected. When I was just starting in Dubai and getting online was not as easy, I started by writing sometimes with a pen and paper, sometimes on my laptop and saving them to upload when I finally get online.

Then, somewhere August last year, when I am connected 24/7, I stopped. I remember not being able to post for quite some time - the whole Ramadan season. I was intending to update but I had to go back home. It wasn't until we got the DSL connection that I was able to update and some of you, my readers, noticed that I had to kinda look back and write things that happened in summary. There were actually some more details that I wanted to write but I just felt it is not timely anymore; for me and for my readers.

After my friend left, I realized that the reason is not really staying connected 24/7. It might actually have been one of the reasons why I stopped writing. I discovered FarmTown and FarmVille I think back in July and I was into it during those times that I didn't write, couldn't write. There's also Twitter where I spend a lot of time reading a lot about a lot: people, news, crafts, entertainment. I follow people I don't even know because I wanted to know from him/her. Like what are his beliefs, interests, inclinations, etc., thinking of how I will learn from their views.

Then, I remember a friend from somewhere who is still very much into FarmVille. We talked about how a lot of people like her are spending a lot of time. Note that I am avoiding to call it addicted because I know most of them people are not. I have been there, done that. It wasn't an addiction for me, and also for a lot of them. I told my friend that as in my case, it is just a way to relieve stress from things. I am not playing FarmVille nor FarmTown anymore. It didn't bring me down to addiction. And I believe the reason is that I am not that much stressed anymore like I used to. I am trying to get well so that I can start over again.

As for the posts, the destruction was the social media and those fields of onions, green peas, blueberries, pineapples that bear fruits from nails, hammers, haystacks to small ponds, big ponds, summer house, hedges, small houses and mansions.

But it didn't bring me down. Because I am still standing. Still blogging.

*Note: Images are screen shots of my own farm. I blogged about it for a time here.