place matters

it seems that the more i get older, the more everything becomes wireless
phones that used to have curly cords that i would use to tie myself up in my room when i was six years old
were replaced with cordless ones, then mobile ones
and you know that the desktops so quickly were switched to lap-warming boxes

humans have been wireless since birth
but we don't notice it until we're alone, until we realize it's me, myself & i,
moreso when we're alone in the world
connected to nothing and no one
and this is what i want to be

the problem with wireless things is that you have to back them up
you want to have a hard copy of what you have on the computer
you have to have something to live by, someone to notice you once in a while
something in your world to be connected to
pictures that are framed are  more beautiful than those that are flicked through quickly on a screen
things are so much more significant when they take up physical space
you remember more when you feel something with your hands, when you write something down

but... wireless things can go more places, see more beauty, try things out and throw them away
they don't take as much energy or effort or money to sustain
they take up less space and are less cumbersome on the whole.

am i more likely to fly? 
no strings attached
look ma, no hands

but i guess at the end of the day, everything that is wireless has to be plugged back in, recharged, revitalized for a new journey to somewhere...
maybe it's no way to live.
when you don't have a homebase to recharge at...
you flit from place to place, trying to pick up energy from something or another. you have to find little pieces of solace... use toilets you're not used to and eat food you don't like, find rooms that you really like in the library.
i never thought about it, but place is so important. movement is all fine and good but you have to have something to come home to. you have to have self-infrastructure to rely on.

does it make you crazy to think that many of the people who will change your life unalterably you have not even met yet?
does it make you feel weird that you'll have to impress them with some innovation you come up with the future... that you'll have to make brand new first impressions and brand new efforts and that what you've already done can't be the best you can do?
does it make you nervous that maybe one day, every song that could possibly be written, will have already been written?

good thing we're all plugged into the matrix and nothing is real.