Hello, world

Well, this is my blog (also in Spanish version). I always arrive late to the party. I had a web page long ago and it looked amazingly static. No animation or flash features or fancy background. No interactive capabilities. Not much of anything. And my facebook page is a great way to waste my time looking at trivialities other people seem to care about.

Now everybody seems to be jumping to the twitter-mobile texting world, and I barely use a cell phone, don’t see a point in twitter, and deep down feel that all this ‘tribune to the world’ is just a self-indulgence device to convince ourselves that we are important, that we have an audience, that our opinion matters.

But, what is life, if not a delusion about goals, directions, importance? We think we go somewhere, that we can make a difference, and that in a few of the bricks that build a better world our name is there, somewhere.

Still . . . either we jump from a bridge or give that delusion a sense of reality and a modicum of satisfaction. If that satisfaction pays some money, even better. But only a chosen few make a living out of expressing opinions. The rest of us have to find pleasure in the elusive sense of creation. Where there was nothing, now we have words and ideas, and with a bit of luck, an interesting, informative and, perhaps, well-written article. At the end of the day, that beats changing channels and caring too much about the derivate lives of fictitious characters (not that I don’t enjoying watching TV, only that following the lives of Jack Bauer, Jack Shepherd, or some other Jack doesn’t leave as, in the long term, with a lot to account for).

So, here I am, thinking that perhaps twitter is not such a bad idea after all, specially when I think that 140-character limit may reduce the amount of time wasted in this endeavour. Well, maybe, every once in a while, there will be something that needs more words to be described or analysed or praised. I am looking forward to persuading myself that I will regularly find that something.