Translated by
Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jnr
Monday, September 10, 2007
"...its the strange connections...you meet someone, go on a date, add them to Facebook, then see that they know so-and-so and you know the "real" him, not the facade he puts up and then you think...mmm..."how well do you know him?" and "do I now want to really know you?"
- A wall post to a friend on FB
...life was easier when we were all just little islands of ignorance and denial.
Life was all so easier when with innocent eyes I looked with trust and not with skeptical doubt and questioning. Life was a little simpler, a little brighter, and a whole lot more coloured with hope.
Somedays you just wake and wish that you never had to grow up, that life and those around you had not decided one day to show you the "real world" and instead you had been able to live on in blissful ignorance.
Somedays the small steps from real to imagination that once took but a shuffle sadly now take a huge leap.
Last year in the Temple of Doom, Indiana unearthed: Clear To Approach
Lectiones Sacrae Ex Libris Indiana 06:00
"...hardly a genius...worthy of all the sycophants you seem to have gathered."
16 Comments:
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Amber said...
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This post really touched my heart. I'm not sure why... other than I fully agree with what you wrote. Somewhere deep inside, a little voice whispered, "yeah... me too" and sighed.
- 08:28
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Peranakan Dude said...
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We'll all always be kids at heart, I guess. That's where our true goodness lies.
- 09:57
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TC said...
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I believe that deep inside, we all wish for the innocence of childhood from time to time. I do, every single time I hang out with my nephew and listen to him tell me about his "friends" - ones I can't see, but that we talk about so many times, I can't help but start to believe.
- 10:28
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Indiana said...
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Amber: Either it's getting old, or too fast...but then maybe its me who is getting old?
- 11:02
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M said...
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yeah, *siiiigh*.
- 13:14
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meghansdiscontent said...
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And *that* is why I stay away from Facebook, MySpace and anything of the like. I enjoy my little island of ignorance and denial.
- 13:56
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bumbler said...
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I dislike how growing up taints the edges of everything with a shadow i can't place. The mailbox used to be a place where i'd get letters from penpals i'd look fwd to, now it's ten bills a week, that have to be paid within the next week. The fridge used to be a place to look for a yummy snack, now it's where i look when i write my grocery list and note disinterestedly, what is lacking and mentally calculate how much i have to spend. The clock used to be an indicator of the next happy event, snacks, play time, sleep...now it's an indicator of how late i am for work, for the deadlines of life.
- 14:08
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miss j said...
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Facebook etc has just created a new dimension to relationships.. hopefully the people you interact with are intelligent enough to realize that there is a profile for the world to see and then there is the person behind the profile. Sometimes they can be very different people.
- 15:16
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gremlin said...
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it's a rainy day today. step out like right now and get a lil wet, for fun? that kinda gives me back some sanity - doing stuff like that ;)
- 15:30
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Indiana said...
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M: Feel the same huh?
- 18:08
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Amber said...
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Indy: Mayyybe? But don't worry... you're still H-O-T! :)
- 05:52
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Tiny said...
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Being ignorant or being kept in the dark can be a blessing sometimes.
- 09:03
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sofia said...
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"never lose your childish innocence. it's the most important thing."
- 09:06
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Indiana said...
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Amber: ~lol~ thanks
- 09:26
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Dr Bamboo said...
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It's funny how we can have so many friends online now - people we've never met and we feel we know them better than we know our 'real' friends. Makes you question what's real. Has cyberspace robbed us of the innocence that we knew with true, childhood friends?
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Miss Natalie said...
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i didnt get into myspaz, facebook eh, i dont know what the point is... i think there should be 'friends' and 'people i want to add to increase my friend number' fuck that
- 17:20
Post a CommentI wish Peter Pan's NeverNever Land really existed some days. I think it's important to foster the child that lives in all of us to a degree. It's what keeps the beauty of the world from becoming spoilt.
Maybe the fast lane is getting old, Indy?
Dude: When rainy days were spent playing Lego and not lost in the paying of bills.
TC: You have to believe cause they just might be real. :-) I love the enthusism the young have for everything...
...damn when did I get this jaded.
I also think that working with kids helps keep me shuffling.
:( Sorry that you have to leap.
Responsibility makes everything so much less fabulous and rosy, doesnt it?
And re: facebook...someone who is defining you by your profile probably isnt worth a date...but heck that happens too. Man. Not that there's anything wrong with your profile, but u know what i mean.
I know I'm not going to put my biggest faults on my profile but I will put things to get reactions.. I look at others profiles in the same light... remembering that there is someone behind it...
and as a fellow jaded soul... just push past the cynicism and believe that someone good is out there! You can do it!
Brittany: Sometimes the leaps are fun, but more often or not I would prefer a less strenuous action.
Bumbler: Responsibility beyond the self, changes everything..and while there are still rosy moments they are tempered too often by too much thinking, too much reasoning and not enough foolish action.
Some days I think this is a bad thing other times I think the idea that it makes choices more deliberate is in fact a good thing
Miss J: I think that my jaded soul is just in need of a rest...the hope is still there, but doubt is a pretty big bugbear to carry some days.
Gremlin: I am usually very happy to step outside my comfort zone...and trying new things for just the experience is something I usually relish...but lately I have been hoping from a more stable, less lonely place to do such.
--Katherine, Under the Tuscan Sun
i'm twenty and starting to have to remind myself of this.
Tiny: That's true but so often the veil on that darkness is ripped asunder and lies are exposed.
Sofia: Already. You clearly need to dance in the rain more often.
I recently got in touch with one I've been out of contact with for years: the internet makes it easy to find people. But do I really know him anymore? It's like starting over with a new person from Friendster or MySpace. We have to go back to the begginning and build up a rapport as 'cyber-friends' now before we meet again in the real world.
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