Did you know that there are people out there who abandon all their belongings to go live a simple existence on the land? I am quite sure none of these people know about the pure joys of little red love aka facebook notifications.
At the moment I am reading Into The Wild - The story of a young man from a well-to-do family who hitchhiked across America to Alaska. His name was Christoper McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp. He had given $25, 000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burnt all the cash in his wallet and walked in the wild.
It was actually turned into a movie a few years ago. Directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch. It really is an amazing movie. Each time I watch it, I sob for about an hour afterwards. However, the book really is something else. I definitely recommend it!
Anyway, I find the idea of running away from civilisation pretty fascinating. Making a decision to live such a drastic lifestyle like that seems like it would have been much easier back in 1991. Back when we weren't ruled by the constant need for entertainment and little red love.
Last night I discussed the concept of this little red love with a friend of mine. We talked about the excitement of it and the secret need for it. That feeling you get when you log on to facebook to find that you have not only one little red love, but two! Your heart immediately soars to heights unknown.
The reason why I call it little red love is because each notification is a little tangible moment of love. At that very instant one of your facebook 'friends' - real friends, relatives, acquaintances, friends of friends, childhood friends, someone you once met whilst drunk or all of the above, has thought of you and has decided to express it by acting accordingly.
It is also called little red love because it is something nice and positive. I'm pretty sure no one ever posts something mean on your wall or makes a bitchy comment on a photo telling you how bad you look in that outfit. This is because most of the people you are friends with on facebook actually like you, find you somewhat entertaining or at the least are happy to tolerate you. Hopefully the people who hate you and think you are a ridciulous human being have deleted you. So bring on the little red love!
March 23, 2010
March 6, 2010
Time.
I always thought I would be a fantastically devoted blogger who wrote about funny and witty things every few days; sadly I am not. The main reason for this is due to the fact that I am extremely self-conscious about my writing. Having spent 18 months rejecting writers will probably do that to you.
The reason I have decided to post something is because I have had a few nudges from people lately, so I thought I’d better hop to it!
This blog posting is going to be devoted to TIME - something that is both friend and foe. For example, I honestly don’t really have time to be updating my blog as I’m supposed to be finding one song that sums up my musical taste and that also, when I listened to it for the first time, had such a strong reaction, that I felt that it “changed everything”. A simply impossible task that I am supposed to undertake for a subject at uni; something I am quite sure any music addict in their right mind could never accomplish.
Along with that, I don’t really have time to be blogging as I’m supposed to be organising a shooting schedule which needs many hours to stress over before actually finishing – this actually goes hand in hand with the daily neurosis of stressing about whether I can actually cut it as a film producer – that of which is an entirely other blog posting altogether.
Time is something that is constantly on my mind; in fact I’m going to assume it’s on everyone’s mind, hell I’m not special! Time is one of those things that I’m not completely satisfied with and feel like I’m forever whining about – which I admit, should probably stop now.
For instance, I would really love for the next few weeks to go super slowly because I have so much to do; on the other hand I want the next two years to go super fast so that I can finish uni and move back to New York.
Well at this point I should probably just stop worrying about time, god knows I’ll be worrying about everything else!
I am going to dedicate the bottom section of my posting to fellow bloggers who I admire greatly.
Firslty, to the devine Eve Kelso – who I saw briefly the other day and always makes me feel sunny. She a started a travel blog last week and it’s truly wonderful. You should check it out! http://evekelso.blogspot.com/2010/03/first-hit.html
Secondly, I would like to plug the splendid blog AdHoc Mom. It’s written by two fabulous women who hale from Brooklyn. The blog is brilliantly funny and witty and I promise that you’ll be entertained, even if you don’t have kids!
http://www.adhocmom.com/
The reason I have decided to post something is because I have had a few nudges from people lately, so I thought I’d better hop to it!
This blog posting is going to be devoted to TIME - something that is both friend and foe. For example, I honestly don’t really have time to be updating my blog as I’m supposed to be finding one song that sums up my musical taste and that also, when I listened to it for the first time, had such a strong reaction, that I felt that it “changed everything”. A simply impossible task that I am supposed to undertake for a subject at uni; something I am quite sure any music addict in their right mind could never accomplish.
Along with that, I don’t really have time to be blogging as I’m supposed to be organising a shooting schedule which needs many hours to stress over before actually finishing – this actually goes hand in hand with the daily neurosis of stressing about whether I can actually cut it as a film producer – that of which is an entirely other blog posting altogether.
Time is something that is constantly on my mind; in fact I’m going to assume it’s on everyone’s mind, hell I’m not special! Time is one of those things that I’m not completely satisfied with and feel like I’m forever whining about – which I admit, should probably stop now.
For instance, I would really love for the next few weeks to go super slowly because I have so much to do; on the other hand I want the next two years to go super fast so that I can finish uni and move back to New York.
Well at this point I should probably just stop worrying about time, god knows I’ll be worrying about everything else!
I am going to dedicate the bottom section of my posting to fellow bloggers who I admire greatly.
Firslty, to the devine Eve Kelso – who I saw briefly the other day and always makes me feel sunny. She a started a travel blog last week and it’s truly wonderful. You should check it out! http://evekelso.blogspot.com/2010/03/first-hit.html
Secondly, I would like to plug the splendid blog AdHoc Mom. It’s written by two fabulous women who hale from Brooklyn. The blog is brilliantly funny and witty and I promise that you’ll be entertained, even if you don’t have kids!
http://www.adhocmom.com/
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