created 2025-04-25, & modified, =this.modified
tags:y2025
It is at this hour, late in the day, when I am in my head, and the thought comes to me.
That realization that all I know, these people I think I know, I only know through connections and symbols. I have never encountered them, or am currently disconnected.
That person, that connection, was pixels on a screen in a distant, past land.
It’s so easy to think of. We all know it. But the disconnection really hits deeply.
I think this can be seen in the shock of a celebrity. The unexpected. The teenie-bopper who hangs the picture of the celebrity crush on the wall, then cannot contain themselves when they see them in person.