We want to know what
we don’t know, or hadn’t thought of,
or forgot.
What mattered then,
or what mattered when, shifts over time.
We notice.
Perception is what you don’t see.
Deception is what know.
You see it differently through your aloneness.
The truth behind a lie,
you question how and why.
It made sense.
Anticipation keeps us waiting
for only so long. Will it matter
if you felt it never did?
© 2021 j.g. lewis
Slow down: even with the ideas that come to quicky. Take the time to acknowledge the feelings that arrive, as they arrive.
Write it down. How else will you remember what you were thinking?
Print neatly. You hardly understand the thoughts at the time, why make it more difficult to comprehend weeks or years from now?
Follow your own logic; only you need to truly make sense of what is happening, or all that has happened.
Pay attention to the lessons of the past. Be mindful that not all are worth repeating.
Clarity. Make corrections as you go. Flaws become more difficult to correct the longer you live with them.
11/14/2024 j.g.l.
I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
Hardly a dozen days remain in this decade of change.
We are not what we were, nor will we be what we may.
Are we like everybody else? We’ve become less individual.
Hasn’t it become more difficult maintaining our personality, in a digital era, as we navigate our way through ultra-convenient devices loaded timesaving applications? Have we learned more, or is everything done for us?
Can we still think for ourselves?
Each step we take is now tracked, or monitored, or commoditized? Is this how we want it? We capture it all on mobile devices, but do we see with our eyes?
Each minute, each day, every gigabyte, more and more, our data trail is obvious. Where we go, what we do? Even who we connect with; is nothing private, for me or for you?
Algorithms dictate the content of our lives, or they will if we want it. Information is denied, or not always available, and our personal data is another matter.
How can we keep anything to ourselves?
Privacy and security, once so dear, has it become lost in the shuffle?
We’ve become willing participants in a depersonalized process.
Indeed, the end is near.
12/20/2019 j.g.l.
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I’m like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
