I Thought I Would Miss Twitter, but...

It's only been 3 days but it feels like a lifetime not twittering and I mean this a good way. For me it's like ideas are flowing again and it's a beautiful thing when it comes go blogging. For a long time it took me a while to drink the "Twitter/Facebook" kool-aid and when I finally did I fell hard, really hard. So hard that I spent so much time on twitter where it was addictive. So I made up my mind Sunday that I will stay off twitter for 30 days. The only time I will tweet is when sharing my link for my podcasts and you know what...it feels GOOOOD!!!
Twitter is cool, really cool but time and time again I fall into treating twitter as if it's an IM app and it's not, far from that. I found myself posting thoughts on twitter and checking every nano-second if someone has replied to my tweet and that's just, well sad. Yes, I will admit, I'm sad but at least I'm admitting it and I come to realize how addicted I have been to Twitter. 3 months ago it was even worse with me because I was so hooked on Facebook and Twitter checking on the hour every hour. But I found myself slipping away from Facebook over the months. Again I post links over there but not really, check it. Both Twitter and Facebook is a cool tool to use but for some people like, myself, you can over do it. I have let so many things slipped and now little by little I'm making myself get back to things that I love to do and need to do like, reading blogs.

Two blogs I've gotten into is by @ExtremelyAvg and @nycgirlygirl72 (I really need to find out my sister in photography real name). What's cool about Brian is not only his photography and his journey into the world of learning woodwork but how he loves to write and that goes for girlygirl with her photography and her love of words. I'm learning not only to enjoy their blogs but how they use words, how they say whats on their mind whether it's about their projects or what's going on in the world today. So it got me to thinking how passionate I was when I first began blogging. So I thank you two for your wonderful, beautiful sites.

The past three days I have realized that when away from twitter my imagination is coming back and my mind is beginning to roam about things I love, things I need to read. Heck my love for music for some reason sounds much richer. I'm like a person who has quit smoking and for the first time I'm actually tasting food for the first time. (I've never smoked but I've heard ex-smokers say that when eating fruits and vegetables, "I never knew how good this really tasted until now."

Twitter is here to stay no doubt but it feels good to be able to begin to let my thoughts, my words, my feelings flow again and not thinking in 140 characters. I'm learning the world of emails, IMs again and it's wonderful. I've been down this road before in regards to Twitter but now I'm learning not to think of being off twitter for 30 days but do like the termites do by taking "iddy-biddy" bites, taking it one day at a time. Finding other things to feel my day.

We but the wii a couple of months ago and our grandkids play it all the time when they come over but I have never played it but today was different. Many gamers "poo-poo" wii but I love because it's game that is just one word, "fun". No violence, no profanity, just all out fun. I've never been a gamer unless it was Crash Bandicoot or Donkey Kong games. I think the only game I really played where it may have been violent was the Bruce Lee game(and I do miss that game so) but I've enjoyed games with bright colors, funny looking characters. Today I played Wii Golf, Wii Table Tennis, Wii Basketball by myself and I had a ball and afterwards I told my queen, "that was really fun!" And it truly was.

I've been talking to my geek brother who will be sending me some extra Star Wars novels and I can't wait to get them and begin reading them. and to be honest I have so many books on our bookshelves which I've never cracked up and that's is just shameful but I think tonight I will begin reading a book that a friend that is no longer with me introduces me to, "The Prophet" by Kahil Gibran.

The first time she gave me that book to read I was so blown away. It's a small book, you could read it in one sitting but oh the deepness of the book which goes to show that sometimes a book doesn't have to be 500 pages to have it touch your soul. So that's my mission, to begin reading a book again and no matter how sleepy I become, (isn't it something that when you do something that truly brings healing and peace to your man spirit you get sleepy?) From the beginning of when prophet begins to speak on "Love" it hooked me. I now I'm going to get reacquainted with the love of words. If I don't understand it, I will look it up, If I can't pronounce I will learn how to speak it fluently.

Another thing while having my mind wander I thought of the comic book heroes I loved as a kid. Sure there was Spiderman, the Uncanny X-Men, Iron Man (has been and will be my all-time favorite) but I remember loving Dr. Strange, Adam Warlock,  Defenders, Invaders,  Avengers, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos,

Son of Satan,  Falcon, and the one and only, Sub-Mariner. I remember growing up and me and my buddy Walter Davis would catch the bus to Granite City, IL to buy the latest comics and get back home and go on his porch and spend hours reading comics and Sub-Mariner was my favorite because of where he came from, how much of an outcast he was but in the end still became one of the most powerful super heroes around.

I'm loving being away from twitter because now slowly but surely I'm becoming a "creator" again and not just a "consumer". It feels good. If I feel this way and it's only been day 3 just think where I will be in 30 days