Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Ego Stroke, and the real world question |12:50 AM|
Vorpal was interviewing me for a school project (He'd had his other options cancelled on him, and thus he profiled me as an internet vagabond). The above story happened while I was there, but during the course of conversations about people across the damn country, and if it was at all possible to maintain a friendship with them, the whole damn "living in the real world" issue came up again.
I immediately spat out a line that I think works, "The real world is not a place you should run to".
Yeah, I know I ended it with a preposition, I'm working on it.
Still, using "living in the real world" as the reason you don't want to take any risks just rubs me the wrong way. It seems more like "I'm comfortable in the reality I have built for myself".
Sheesh, am I a person that should talking about taking risks, or dealing with reality?
Clearly, the conversation had turned to people meeting online, then meeting in real life, with the "Real World" being the huge gulfs of distances that often seperated these people.
The only term for it is "lucked out" but I don't exactly believe in luck. However, any way you look at it, I met a nice woman online, in an improbably fashion, she lives in town, and we're doing swell. So I'm not in a position to judge folks about long distance relathionships.
But risks do keep life interesting.
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