Ground Bogo

There is no real life, only AFK

Just coming back from a bit of a stroll outside. It’s dark and chilly outside so I quickly leap into my room while it’s warm and cozy. This time, however, something was different. Time had stretched for some reason, and the first 15 seconds I spent in the room felt like 15 minutes. And so, I realized how empty the room is, and how dark it is even though I had just turned on the light. My laptop was turned off…wait, my laptop was off. And then, it hit me, the reason behind it all.

The computer screen really is a window to the world. You hear this on the news and see it in ads. You even claim to know and understand it, and maybe you do to some extent, but that extent being far from the full one. It is a hole in your desk that allows you instant access to millions of other people, and to almost all the collective information that humanity possesses right now. You just have to stick your head in. This availability of so many individuals out there is the under-appreciated part that goes under the radar. Because to be honest, we live pretty lonely lives right here amongst us, but we have incorporated this online community into our days without even thinking about it. This thing can be felt if you have the same experience like me of staying in the room 15 minutes by myself with the laptop closed. However, we don’t do that, so we don’t realize our…dependency? No, I don’t like this word; I would say something that makes our lives many times better, but something that we could potentially live without…like our parents, for example. And yet, it’s all there now, and we should at least register it in order to recognize its importance.