I spend so much time saying there isn’t enough going on in this area, or that I’m unfulfilled, or lacking something, wondering where all the cool cats and like minded peeps are at. I should shut myself up every once in a while. I plug myself in and waste hours that I could have spent writing or perfecting a new bass line, or learning card tricks, instead of speaking in mindless small talk conversastions or what have you. But here’s the thing, I can now plug myself in, while holding meaningful conversations, watching movies, practicing my bass, finding new music, and networking always networking. No more woe is me bullshit, life is what I make it, shitty job or not, boring area or not. Enter tumblr, a place that to the rest of the world seems to be full of fuck ups and misfits, but you get this all wrong, we are fandom, we are people who give a shit about each other, we are networking in the way that everyone else is failing to. Find the right community on that site and you are golden, you will have an amazing connection to another human being within the course of hours or days, as opposed to weeks and months and years. sure there’s a bit of small talk, compliments and the like, but it’s not like the meaningless drivel I mentioned formerly, it’s sincere, and honest. I can hold a better conversation with my fellow tumblies, some who I consider the coolest folks around, then some people I have none for most of my life. When I worry that people don’t get me, I can go back to there and find the common ground so many of us all too often lack in this modern age. Sure, they’re be plenty of people there as on every other site that don’t have the time of day for you, but when you truly mesh into a community or a true friendship on there, you will have a base to fall back on. When I finally manage to meet some of them in real life, I will have found my family and my home. Thank you friends for creating a place that truly sparks our imaginations. 🙂 Sharing our truest selves v. pretending for the sake of appearances.