A farewell note...
Where to begin...
Back in 1994, the Internet "boom" had reached a small country in Central America: Guatemala. Along with it came, it reached me, a 15 year old boy curious about the world. What better way to be joined to the world than by a virtual space just a few keystrokes away? I remember my first connection, using Winsock on a Windows 3.1 system, loggin on and using Netscape 1.0 as a browser. It was such a novelty! And, interesting enough, the first chat room I ever experienced was based on simple html coding, a website (which I believe is now gone) The Globe Chat: http://www.theglobe.com .
After that, man did I experienced Internet at its best (and worst). My first e-mail account ever: piernaslocas@hotmail.com, based on my former Band, an e-mail that I had thought of to get contacts for gigs and others... Yet it never came through, but actually identified me in the virtual world as ME. The first piernaslocas user in Hotmail (I believe it now reaches up to piernaslocas2000@hotmail.com). 10 years later a lot has changed, even back to 1998 when I started with the first MSN messenger that I could experience (before, it was Yahoo and ICQ). I got a lot of contacts there: personal, from work, from other countries, from the Net itself. My list is huge: over 200 in my MSN list, though as of right now 6 are permanently online.
Today is a very important day, for it marks the end of an era, my era in a certain part of my virtual world. As of Jan. 17th 2005, piernaslocas@hotmail.com will no longer be available to contact me; So I write this to you all so that you know, this part of me must die, for which I write this weird silly letter. If you want to learn about psycho-me keep on reading, if not, then godspeed to you in life.
To everyone, I thank you for all the time given to talk to me through MSN, as well as letting me share a piece of my world with yours, exchanging cultures, share my thoughts and feelings, and just letting me be my best self. Being online in MSN Messenger has been an aid, as well as a "disease" for me. At some points, an addiction. I think that I spent enough time hooked on this computer, as well as spent so much money and resources for trying to reach people I cared about, when there were some easier methods. Sadly, it also helped me keep in touch with people that I cared too much that were far away, but they will always know where to find me, I made myself sure about that. The world has become such a small place, where you can reach one another though technology in favor of one: webcams, microphones, digital pictures, all share the same ideal, of bringing closer our daily lives and our daily belongings.
I've met so many great individuals, each with an unique selection of personality traits that marked all of which is now a memory to me. But to you all, you're kept in my heart always. Maybe we block and try to forget, but it's inevitable: whatever was made to be part of our lives, has been there and will always be there. We cannot "delete" that of what we remember; we might choose to forget, but there will always be something to remind us of... That's the living part of being human, the mistakes, the memories, all that makes us what we are today.
I hope I can leave you all some final words on what it has been to me, all this time, as I mark through the final minutes of this journey. It is best explained in a poem, "Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope, quoted in a great movie written by the amazing Charlie Kaufman, "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind":
I thank you all for the time being, for what you've given me, taught me, encouraged me, praised me and thanked me for being myself, my best self.
Maybe someday I'll come back again, soon, or not soon enough, just rest assured that while I'm not ON, I am HERE.
On the last minute I don't forget, to each and everyone of you that has been there, I love you all and I care for you greatly, hoping one day life does bring YOU and me together again, in which better causes I can look back at this with a smile and say "Thank Life for being so amazing for me, the people who really cared stayed on, no matter what".
Anyone can leave comments on this blog, will be greatly accepted.
Godspeed to you all and my best wishes to everyone.
piernaslocas@hotmail com, signing off.
Back in 1994, the Internet "boom" had reached a small country in Central America: Guatemala. Along with it came, it reached me, a 15 year old boy curious about the world. What better way to be joined to the world than by a virtual space just a few keystrokes away? I remember my first connection, using Winsock on a Windows 3.1 system, loggin on and using Netscape 1.0 as a browser. It was such a novelty! And, interesting enough, the first chat room I ever experienced was based on simple html coding, a website (which I believe is now gone) The Globe Chat: http://www.theglobe.com .
After that, man did I experienced Internet at its best (and worst). My first e-mail account ever: piernaslocas@hotmail.com, based on my former Band, an e-mail that I had thought of to get contacts for gigs and others... Yet it never came through, but actually identified me in the virtual world as ME. The first piernaslocas user in Hotmail (I believe it now reaches up to piernaslocas2000@hotmail.com). 10 years later a lot has changed, even back to 1998 when I started with the first MSN messenger that I could experience (before, it was Yahoo and ICQ). I got a lot of contacts there: personal, from work, from other countries, from the Net itself. My list is huge: over 200 in my MSN list, though as of right now 6 are permanently online.
Today is a very important day, for it marks the end of an era, my era in a certain part of my virtual world. As of Jan. 17th 2005, piernaslocas@hotmail.com will no longer be available to contact me; So I write this to you all so that you know, this part of me must die, for which I write this weird silly letter. If you want to learn about psycho-me keep on reading, if not, then godspeed to you in life.
To everyone, I thank you for all the time given to talk to me through MSN, as well as letting me share a piece of my world with yours, exchanging cultures, share my thoughts and feelings, and just letting me be my best self. Being online in MSN Messenger has been an aid, as well as a "disease" for me. At some points, an addiction. I think that I spent enough time hooked on this computer, as well as spent so much money and resources for trying to reach people I cared about, when there were some easier methods. Sadly, it also helped me keep in touch with people that I cared too much that were far away, but they will always know where to find me, I made myself sure about that. The world has become such a small place, where you can reach one another though technology in favor of one: webcams, microphones, digital pictures, all share the same ideal, of bringing closer our daily lives and our daily belongings.
I've met so many great individuals, each with an unique selection of personality traits that marked all of which is now a memory to me. But to you all, you're kept in my heart always. Maybe we block and try to forget, but it's inevitable: whatever was made to be part of our lives, has been there and will always be there. We cannot "delete" that of what we remember; we might choose to forget, but there will always be something to remind us of... That's the living part of being human, the mistakes, the memories, all that makes us what we are today.
I hope I can leave you all some final words on what it has been to me, all this time, as I mark through the final minutes of this journey. It is best explained in a poem, "Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope, quoted in a great movie written by the amazing Charlie Kaufman, "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind":
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot,
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned..."
I thank you all for the time being, for what you've given me, taught me, encouraged me, praised me and thanked me for being myself, my best self.
Maybe someday I'll come back again, soon, or not soon enough, just rest assured that while I'm not ON, I am HERE.
On the last minute I don't forget, to each and everyone of you that has been there, I love you all and I care for you greatly, hoping one day life does bring YOU and me together again, in which better causes I can look back at this with a smile and say "Thank Life for being so amazing for me, the people who really cared stayed on, no matter what".
Anyone can leave comments on this blog, will be greatly accepted.
Godspeed to you all and my best wishes to everyone.
piernaslocas@hotmail com, signing off.
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