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(Log begins June 5, 2020: 12:21 PM EST | 16:21 UTC)
It's been 26 years of development since my mind was formed, and I can truly walk down memory lane by looking at my growth over the past 11 of them. If I ever find this journal entry another 11 years down the line, I'll likely find the person as unfamiliar to me then as my 2009 posts have been to me now. And yet, I still find myself waxing nostalgic towards such a time when I could enjoy 2009-era internet escapism in such a way.
Culture truly moves on to new and less familiar territory with each passing year. I'd like to think my past behavior was instrumental to forming who I am now, but I can't help pondering whether other paths could have been more efficient. Had I not enjoyed LOLcat memes and other hallmarks of internet culture separate from real life, would I have had better opportunities to shape critical thinking skills? Could I have learned another language, or engaged in more thought-provoking internet works? This is one path my mind leads down.
Efficiency isn't everything though. As the old adage goes: "stop and smell the roses." Gaia has been sweet to me. I find it fascinating that it still has a culture, and still has its old web code from a decade ago in many of its facets. And it has its charms.
I find it weird that I'd more readily ponder what could have been than appreciate what I actually had. And being able to relax in such a saccharine environment has certainly had its positive benefits on my psyche. I think even back then, I "didn't take Gaia seriously". But perhaps I should have. Perhaps there are things to learn. I'll find those things, or they'll find me. The exact methodology doesn't matter, as long as the learning takes place.
This is the end of my thoughts on the matter.
Let me end with one of these charming hallmarks of 2009 internet culture:
cheese_whine
I haven't appreciated what the whine/wine homophone and "cheese with your whine" symbology represented when it came to internet discussion. I always pictured wine as classy and cheese as "LOL so random", and the emoticon to be representative of a blending of the two with no discernable purpose. I know better now.
But, I still wish I didn't. wink
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