Future Plans
Studying Svenska has reawoken my enjoyment of poetry and writing poetry. I haven't done that since I was about 17 years old (wow, two decades ago). This year has been really hard and in some ways it feels like my brain is trying to reconnect me with things I loved in the past to try and keep me grounded. Maybe that's why I wanted to create a html website as well. I guess we tend towards things that are familiar when we are going through hard times. I had hoped that this year would be easier, but turns out it wasn't, either personally or in the world at large. I'm not sad about the obstacles I have had to face this year because they were absolutely necessary, but I am looking forward to a life in the future where all of these things are put to rest. Maybe I will talk about that stuff later on, but not right now.
When I was a teen, I used to make my own websites and fill them with stuff I liked. As an adult, part of me thinks that is kind of pointless, but then again, it was actually a great way of expressing myself and making a spot on the internet where I could put my own things out there and maybe find others who shared the same interests. I feel like social media consolidated that sort of thing in the beginning, but nowadays, that aspect is not important anymore. The companies want you to look at stuff, look at ads. Post personal stuff so they can read it and throw it into the churning machine of the LLM. I deleted my facebook after a couple of months of not being able to see any posts from my friends and family because it became utterly pointless to be there.
To a degree, I miss sending snail mail, too. Maybe I should start doing that again. If the internet goes down, if a HDD breaks, if a computer burns out, then all of the stuff you created and received from loved ones is gone. At least you get to keep those things if they're on paper.
I've had a shoulder injury for a couple of weeks now and it is driving me crazy. I had a back injury just before it. Doing yoga helped a lot and my back is much better but my shoulder is a problem because I need to use my arm for everything and it's my dominant arm too. Pain makes me grumpy. Here's to healing my injuries and being able to be more active.
This weekend I am going to visit friends in another town for a Halloween get-together and we'll probably play DnD or some other TTRPG, which I am really looking forward to. I should really be doing my math homework rather than writing here so I better stop and go do that instead.
I wanted to say before I go that I have a lot of future plans for this website. I am still trying to figure out how to add certain features like a guestbook or comments function, and I really want to add a visitor counter like in the good old days. I should write this down somewhere otherwise I will definitely forget. Gonna go now.
Signing off, Nem