It’s an odd existence I lead these days. Enviable at times, by some. And at times, rightly so, it can be great. It can be fun. But it’s still odd. Like right now, I’m in Beijing, China. Sitting in a hotel lounge catching up with email and other stuff while Alan is up in the hotel room, on a call. He is always on calls, or so it seems to me. He travels so much and then when he is close, physically, he is seldom with me. Work. The sacrifices some of us make for it, for whatever reasons.
I often think that it’s a jolly good thing that I was an only child until the age of 9 and as such, am well accustomed to amusing myself and making my own entertainment. I’m comfortable with my own company. At times maybe too comfortable and I need to nudge myself to reconnect with the outer world. This evening though, I thought I’d catch up on some blogging, clearly. Feels like a perfect time to do so.
I tried to log on to my Blog account but no...it seems I can’t. I'm in China. I knew that Facebook was banned here, but Blogger too? Well...that’s just too much! It makes me wonder how I would have coped had we been sent to mainland China rather than Hong Kong...which was a distinct possibility at the time. I guess I never would have started the blog and I would be none the wiser but no Facebook either as a medium to share? I would have felt so very disconnected from my friends and family! How would that have felt? Hard to predict, but not good I sense. More than odd. These days, many people thrive on Facebook and other social media networks and many of those people have the majority of their friends and family virtually on their doorstep. I suddenly feel quite uncomfortable. But why? Why should this make so much difference? Go back 5 years perhaps and this would not have been a consideration. If we chose to leave our home country then we could rely on phones, email, MSN and Skype...and I did, the first time around. But now I have new technology addictions and I wonder how I’d cope without them. Well...thankfully I didn’t have to, so all I can say is Thank You Hong Kong for allowing me to connect and to share in ways I should never take for granted!
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