Why talk if you can text?
As a writer, I don't think I ever worry about bad writing. Oh no I am not full of myself, I promise. If I went back just to last week's post, I would find multiple mistakes and at least one sentence so badly put together that even I cannot understand what I meant. But I don't worry about that. If I did, I would have to stop writing and I would be very sad.
However NOT having SOMETHING to write about scares me, because writing is my therapy. I feel better when I write, whether it is about something important or just the latest weird thing happening to me. So when Kyle, my seat neighbor on the plane, showed me his phone screen which read "hi I am Kyle, do you have plans for NYE?" I didn't think "weirdo alert - this guy might stalk me and then try to kill me." I thought potential blog post.
But let's start a few minutes before that. I board my flight to Ontario, Kyle grabs my bag and put it up for me. I say thank you and ask if he leaves in Ontario. It is not that I really cared, but I figured small talk was the least I could do was small talk since my seat neighbor had helped with my bag. He replies that he is going to Riverside but doesn't reciprocate and ask where I am going so I leave it alone. I love to talk but I can take a cue when I have to shut up - sometimes.
Anyhow I had had a long day so I would have rather closed my eyes then talk. That's when Kyle showed me his phone screen. There was probably confusion all over my face for half a minute, then I got my phone and started typing. This could make for a good blog.
Thirty minutes later, I knew that Kyle was 17, from Pucket, Thailand, back from an ice fishing trip with his dad's friend in Minnesota, going to visit his grandmother in Riverside and I was giving him advice about how to make his Japanese crush like him back .. And so much more ...
I asked him if this was his first time. He said yes, that he had gotten the idea when he saw me laughing while texting. How ironic that I, who wrote a book about our century's texting addiction, gave him this idea? Of course he didn't laugh when I told him, he LOLed -:) Double irony.
If someone had typed a message to introduce themselves to you, would you have answered by typing back? talking back? Or would have pretended to be texting someone else?
However NOT having SOMETHING to write about scares me, because writing is my therapy. I feel better when I write, whether it is about something important or just the latest weird thing happening to me. So when Kyle, my seat neighbor on the plane, showed me his phone screen which read "hi I am Kyle, do you have plans for NYE?" I didn't think "weirdo alert - this guy might stalk me and then try to kill me." I thought potential blog post.
But let's start a few minutes before that. I board my flight to Ontario, Kyle grabs my bag and put it up for me. I say thank you and ask if he leaves in Ontario. It is not that I really cared, but I figured small talk was the least I could do was small talk since my seat neighbor had helped with my bag. He replies that he is going to Riverside but doesn't reciprocate and ask where I am going so I leave it alone. I love to talk but I can take a cue when I have to shut up - sometimes.
Anyhow I had had a long day so I would have rather closed my eyes then talk. That's when Kyle showed me his phone screen. There was probably confusion all over my face for half a minute, then I got my phone and started typing. This could make for a good blog.
Thirty minutes later, I knew that Kyle was 17, from Pucket, Thailand, back from an ice fishing trip with his dad's friend in Minnesota, going to visit his grandmother in Riverside and I was giving him advice about how to make his Japanese crush like him back .. And so much more ...
I asked him if this was his first time. He said yes, that he had gotten the idea when he saw me laughing while texting. How ironic that I, who wrote a book about our century's texting addiction, gave him this idea? Of course he didn't laugh when I told him, he LOLed -:) Double irony.
If someone had typed a message to introduce themselves to you, would you have answered by typing back? talking back? Or would have pretended to be texting someone else?
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