{"id":3230,"date":"2010-11-29T23:39:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T07:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2010-11-29T23:39:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T07:39:37","slug":"back-then-vs-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3230","title":{"rendered":"Back then vs. Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back then.  I used to:<\/p>\n<li>Have more online friends than IRL friends<\/li>\n<li>Spend my evenings at my computer (for lack of social life, mobility, money)<\/li>\n<li>Chat for hours online on AIM with people I had never met in person<\/li>\n<li>Hold &#8220;phone conferences with up to 6 people on the line<\/li>\n<li>Online DRAMAH was the word<\/li>\n<p>Now&#8230;it has transitioned into &#8220;normalcy&#8221;!  I have found different avenues to fill my needs of companionship, of relationships, of&#8230;being needed, of being useful, of being a real person and a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Ebert describes it accurately in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2010\/11\/all_the_lonely_people.html\">recent post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was in all words <i>then<\/i> lonely.  Social anxiety, sheltered-ness, lack of social skills, word fumbling kept me from interacting with the real world.  There was a horrible moment that I had at my high school reunion on Saturday that made me realize that yes, I had came a long way, but it was so easy to slip back to who I used to be.  A lonely soul that only wanted to be recognized and most importantly, accepted.<\/p>\n<p>I had sought the internet and it satisfied me.  It still does.  Like the way I write now.  I place the words in this box\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsometimes I have my music on, usually to soundtracks as of late.  I think now about the moments now when I am lonely.  It&#8217;s less.  When I am alone, it&#8217;s not that I think of how I am missing out&#8230;or how I was cruelly rejected.  Rather, I am preparing for something\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcooking, cleaning, sleeping&#8230;writing.  Or I am sending an email, making a comment on Facebook, or sharing something on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>There will be one day though in the future though&#8230;that I&#8217;ll remember that feeling of loneliness again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back then. I used to: Have more online friends than IRL friends Spend my evenings at my computer (for lack of social life, mobility, money) Chat for hours online on AIM with people I had never met in person Hold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3230\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3231,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions\/3231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}