- dysfunction
- n. Abnormal or impaired functioning, especially of a bodily system or social group.
After six years of blogging, over fifteen years in cyberspace, and more than 36 years of breathing, I’ve come to some conclusions about life, the universe, and everything.
For example, the world is a much bigger and a much smaller place than I realized growing up.
For all its intangibleness, Cyberspace is a far more permanent space than I think anyone has yet to realize. People are only now starting to comprehend the real dangers lurking in the expanse of the World Wide Web and, yet, here we are exposing ourselves more and more everyday more and more, hitting the “send” button, pushing our opinions, our identities, truths about ourselves irreversibly out into the great expanse; most of us are still unaware of the consequences that once you press that “send” button, whatever you have typed is “out there” forever and there is no real way to “undo” or “delete”; Cyberspace has a memory much longer than any elephant and you never know who will stumble upon your murmurings, your flames, your behaviors…or when…or how they will react.
And more and more, in my years traversing the great Internet Superhighway, I’ve come to realize, that there are a lot of dysfunctional people “out there” and they seem to be attracted to the Internet in a big way. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying that it’s always a bad thing. There’s varying levels of dysfunction and like all things, in small portions, it can be a wonderful thing. In fact, I’ve come to realize that dysfunction is practically normal now. The world is saturated with it.
Which brings me to the realization the brings me here: I am dysfunctional. Oh, yes, I get it. I accept it. Sometimes I embrace it and wear it like a bright shiny tiara of dysfunctionalness and sometimes it’s my scarlet letter of shame; I guess it depends on the day. But here I am drawn to Cyberspace, despite the dangerousness of it all, pressing “send”, putting myself “out there” in all my dysfunctional glory.
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