Running in Circles

I woke up in the dark this morning, after dreaming about my found friends and I started again to think about this: it's such a cool thing about this medium of communication -- myspace, wordpress, e-blogger, and it all started on the found comment board..

We become friends with people that we never met. We are able to share our entire lives, not just the right-now lives, so it seems we can get to know each other as whole people, as we might have known each other if we had met 20 or 30 years ago. Some of us have even crossed paths on the same physical landscape along the west coast over the past 30+ years, and I'm sure if we had met along the way, we would have run in similar circles. And this is true for those who were not at the same age at the same time, as well as for those of us who were - because out here in Internet Land all events really are simultaneous. Like Einstein said.

For me it feels like there are no lines delineating age, gender, appearance, or any other physical characteristic that tends to limit and define us in "real life." In real life, it's hard to be friends with the opposite sex or people of different generations. Here, if we choose, we can have relationships based purely on what we think, what we feel, and how we treat each other.

It's just really really cool. I like it a lot.

The sun is coming up now, on another rainy day in beautiful gray-green Oregon. The daffodils are shooting up their green signals that spring is on its way. The circles continue, and we keep running in them. Or walking, skipping, jumping, limping, swimming, flying, tapping away on a computer key board -- whatever the case may be. Out here, it’s all the same.