I’ve had such terrible experiences with technologies that
pushed me to write those experiences here and there. Yet I just had another one
and I am so sure I have to write it down here.
One day I went to this meet-up. These people are not really
strangers to me. I know them but not in a way that I know my close
friends. I just know them. We spent hours nearly without some topics to talk
to. Instead, they spent hours ‘talking’ with their gadgets, while I left
clueless alone. BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, MacBook, you name it, they have it.
The only topic they were busy talking to was the poor wifi connection.
I’m not really a people person. Not that kind of girl that
will ask you first if you happen to sit next to me anywhere in this world, from
bus seats, to random meetings. I am not the one who has the big interest on
some people and eager to ask them about anything. No. I am the one that shuts
her mouth closely until someone asks me for something. I prefer to be drowned
in my own world in the middle of bunch of unknown people. But that doesn’t mean
that I cannot be in the middle of the meet-ups or party or anything. Although
I’m not a people person, I cannot not communicate, in a conventional way. I value being
interactive with everyone, I value the distances, I value the effort they’ve
put to be there.
Can you imagine how I was at that weird meet-up? I felt
awkward and totally insignificant. To sum up: I hate it. I’d rather be sitting
alone, drinking coffee while watching people pass by than being in the middle
of unnecessary meeting where the members are busy with their so-called techie
toys.
Oh how I love when black berries and apples were simply just
fruits, and cellphone was only to call and to text.
