I am a VERY novice writer...I started writing out of BOREDOM. I am 60 years old. I grew up on a ranch in Northern Idaho. In my middle-teens, I started working in the woods building logging roads and cleaning up 'Rape-and-Run' trash-wood fields from ruined logging activity from a hundred years earlier.
In my mid-20's, after having many friends killed in the woods, I decided to join the U.S. military...because it was safer. I served in the Navy as a shipboard engineer working with gas turbines and primitive computers. 61 countries, 20 years, some combat time, and some completely debilitating injuries later, I can't work anymore.
So I tried the computer thing...and quickly became 'addicted' to social media. One day a few months later, when my wife came home from her job...and I had been on Facebook ALL DAY! I quit doing that. Now do as much physical work as I can, puttering in the garden, fixing cast-off lawnmowers and giving them away, and doing light housework. That's all great, but not much mental stimulation. So I started writing to fill that blank.
Somehow, I organically arrived at the conclusion that most social media is destructive and walked away.
I am a VERY novice writer...I started writing out of BOREDOM. I am 60 years old. I grew up on a ranch in Northern Idaho. In my middle-teens, I started working in the woods building logging roads and cleaning up 'Rape-and-Run' trash-wood fields from ruined logging activity from a hundred years earlier.
In my mid-20's, after having many friends killed in the woods, I decided to join the U.S. military...because it was safer. I served in the Navy as a shipboard engineer working with gas turbines and primitive computers. 61 countries, 20 years, some combat time, and some completely debilitating injuries later, I can't work anymore.
So I tried the computer thing...and quickly became 'addicted' to social media. One day a few months later, when my wife came home from her job...and I had been on Facebook ALL DAY! I quit doing that. Now do as much physical work as I can, puttering in the garden, fixing cast-off lawnmowers and giving them away, and doing light housework. That's all great, but not much mental stimulation. So I started writing to fill that blank.
Somehow, I organically arrived at the conclusion that most social media is destructive and walked away.
Funny, because I'm not that bright...
A great reminder. Let's hope it sticks. :)