by SilentClark on September 1, 2010
I knew I would need a social media hiatus after the silence was broken. Relying so heavily on social media and technology to communicate made me slightly disenchanted with the whole thing. I always told myself that I would go “Social Media Silent” for a while once I regained other communication channels.
I wanted to let everyone know that I would be coming back at some point in the near future, but I want to give myself a proper cooling off period. It’s interesting to see how quickly you can disappear online when you are truly silent. I don’t think that the silence has nearly the same effect virtually that it does in the real world.
by SilentClark on August 9, 2010
For the first half of the SMX mornings were a trouble zone, as the first few minutes upon waking I would not be thinking clearly. I slipped up a few times in those minutes, mumbling something. After about 50 days, that was less of an issue. It seems the tables have turned. When I woke up this morning something was in front of the alarm clock, so I could not see what time it was. Genna was walking around the room, but I forgot that I could simply ask her to move it.
Again later in the morning, I was trying to show Genna something on the computer and she asked me a question which I was about to answer by typing when she said, “You can speak now.” Right, much easier.
Even here at the office, Matthew was getting frustrated with GChat and I mentioned, “We can just talk about if you want.” I think it will take about a week before it is natural to speak again. Once I get to chatting it seems totally normal. It’s the initiation where I get tricked up. I can feel my mind reversing again as I have to retrain it to stop repressing the desire to speak. I also catch myself thinking I’m doing something wrong when I hear myself speaking.
