Bits have spirit.
While this might not be an original idea, I’ve been thinking about it a great deal lately. Many of us convey our thoughts and emotions through a computer to share with others. Somewhere in the ‘net, they’re stored in little bits and bytes until they’re retrieved for later use. Much like packing away old photos or letters, we can take them out at any time and with a little bit of remembrance, feel the same emotions that we had when we first experienced them.
Like most of you, I get a little nostalgic over the holidays. I don’t just think about the holidays with friends and family, I think about all my friends, most of the events in my life, and a bit about the future. The trigger? Now, most of the time its little the little bits that you all share – either 140 characters at a time in Twitter or the small stories about being stuck in traffic, going on a bike ride with kids, shopping, re-energizing at Starbucks, drinking, gambling, chasing women, links about science, healthcare or politics or about the organizations to which you belong.
Bits have spirit or at least they have the ability to invoke them.
Thanks for your bits. Happy Holidays.
