The Death of AIM (for me)

No, I'm not going to abandon AIM. But really, AIM has never been the same to me since probably my 3rd year. Conversations just haven't been the same. For one, when I'm online I tend to be easily distracted with cleaning, TV, browsing Facebook or YouTube, or other daily activities that my AIM conversations always seem broken. For another, most people are doing the same thing. Most of the time they are at work or in class and when most people have the time to go on AIM they are out doing something else more efficient with their time.

I miss those days when I could stay up 'til 7am in the morning talking to insomniacs like myself. Nowadays, I'm lucky to find someone to talk to past 2am. There is something comforting about knowing that there is someone up late enough for you to talk to. And along with that, there are no distraction but you and that other person and the conversations are some you can never get at any other time of the day. I've met some of my greatest friends at these wee hours of the night =D

At a time when the curtains are closed and the lights are off, the insomniacs, in their unconventional lifestyle, feel only loneliness, a feeling that only forces them into contemplation. Perhaps that is why I enjoy these hours of the night. In a world when life is overly social and fast-paced, it is these hours that seem the longest, breathing life in a way that intricately absorbs its every still and dynamic beauty. Free of all distractions but the distraction to be free.

And now, I'm lying stomach down with my pillow smudged into my face, my kiddie alarm clock staring right into my eyes, and listening to some of the best emo songs of life. And to be quite frank, I couldn't be more satisfied.