Giving the Words Life

So this is me. Well this technically isn’t me, but you are seeing what I am seeing. Every other morning I find myself at this computer, sitting in this room, ready to type. Sometimes I know what I’m going to type already; it comes from a previous inspiration. But sometimes, much like today, I lack previous insight into what I’m going to share with the people of Blipfoto. Somehow it always comes, though. So I sit here and do what I’m doing now. I tell my fingers what I’m feeling, and they tell the keyboard, which tells the computer, which tells you. So the words that you are reading right now have already taken quite a journey. Isn’t that cool, though? You can already understand what I’m thinking, and I haven’t spoken a word to you in person. And yet although I don’t much like to say how I feel in real life, I don’t seem to have the same reservations once this middle man, the computer, is involved. I’m not sure whether I should see this as beautiful or dangerous. Beautiful because it seems like this is enabling us to set something inside of us free, something that is struggling to escape, but we suppress it. Dangerous because although it feels like something is different, not much is and we have to remember that although we feel like we are telling this only to the computer, we are not. The only thing that has changed is that now we know that whoever reads our blogs, they actually do want to hear what we have to say. It might only be me, but I think one of the reasons I have so many words trapped inside my head, words that don’t make it into the world of the spoken, the known and understood, is because I’m afraid that I will be wasting these words; that they will be spoken and heard, but not really listened to. So I’m going to take this moment to thank you reader, thank you for taking the time to read my words. Even if you don’t realize it, you have given them life. Because what good are words, no matter what they are saying, if no one is there to hear them?