I am sitting here teaching someone how to blog and as I am talking, she keeps giving me strange looks, like I am speaking another language. When did the internet create a whole new way of communicating? 5 or 10 years from now, I am sure that dictionaries will have an entire different list of words, like blogosphere, networking, Twitterific, hashtags, Googling, etc. (I have been wondering what hashtags are for a while now...)
I guess its not enough that teenagers have to have a language that their parents (or even people just a few years older) can't understand - now anyone under the age of 30 uses words that mean absolutely nothing to the "old" generations.
Apparently I have fallen prey to this new way of speaking, and I don't think there is anything I can do about it - actually, I don't mind it...much. Sometimes it is a bit frustrating to have to explain myself to people older than 30, and then have to explain my explanations as well, but when they look at me with awe, it makes up for it! (However, the more you know, the more they ask you...) If you know it, they will come!
By the way, my friend ended up starting her blog, in spite of me and my internet spiel! Check it out at: jeshuashealing.blogspot.com.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Like Mother, Like Daughter?
Is it inevitable? Do we even have a choice of whether or not we turn into our parents? Lately I've been having these odd sort of Deja Vu moments, but not the kind where you think you've done this before; the kind where you've seen someone else do it. Namely, my mother!
The older I get (not that I'm old by any means!) the more I notice I'm saying and doing things that I never thought I would - things that my mother always said and did. This genetic "copycat" behavior has even penetrated into the littlest of things, like what I do when I rinse my fingers at the sink, how I say certain things and what I do when I'm on the phone.
When I was a teenager, I was (or I tried to be) the opposite of my mom, but things changed when I grew up, and now my mother is also my friend. That was a little weird for me at first, and sometimes it still doesn't seem natural, but I'm getting used to it! However, the more I "get to know her", the more I'm realizing I'm just like her!
I can't help but wonder how much of this we have control over. Are we genetically predisposed and/or environmentally predisposed to become our parents, or is it a choice we subconsciously make? In my opinion, it is completely genetic/environmental because we do it without even realizing that we are copying our parents' behaviors.
I guess I should take a good, long look at my mother and resign myself to the fact that slowly but surely, I am becoming just like her! Don't get me wrong, my mom is great, and she has many admirable qualities. I just never thought that all of the little things she says and does would someday be my little things as well!
Like mother, like daughter and like father, like son. How far does it go back? When I copy my mom's way of rinsing her fingers, is that how her great, great grandmother did it too? I wonder if she has noticed the little behaviors that her mother passed down to her...
To answer my first question, I guess it is inevitable. There are just certain things we cannot change, no matter how hard we try! And when I have a daughter of my own, she will find herself shocked at the fact that she is caught in the cycle as well - she'll probably rinse her fingers differently too, and doodle the same word over and over again while she is on the phone. She may never even realize that those actions are not her own!
The older I get (not that I'm old by any means!) the more I notice I'm saying and doing things that I never thought I would - things that my mother always said and did. This genetic "copycat" behavior has even penetrated into the littlest of things, like what I do when I rinse my fingers at the sink, how I say certain things and what I do when I'm on the phone.
When I was a teenager, I was (or I tried to be) the opposite of my mom, but things changed when I grew up, and now my mother is also my friend. That was a little weird for me at first, and sometimes it still doesn't seem natural, but I'm getting used to it! However, the more I "get to know her", the more I'm realizing I'm just like her!
I can't help but wonder how much of this we have control over. Are we genetically predisposed and/or environmentally predisposed to become our parents, or is it a choice we subconsciously make? In my opinion, it is completely genetic/environmental because we do it without even realizing that we are copying our parents' behaviors.
I guess I should take a good, long look at my mother and resign myself to the fact that slowly but surely, I am becoming just like her! Don't get me wrong, my mom is great, and she has many admirable qualities. I just never thought that all of the little things she says and does would someday be my little things as well!
Like mother, like daughter and like father, like son. How far does it go back? When I copy my mom's way of rinsing her fingers, is that how her great, great grandmother did it too? I wonder if she has noticed the little behaviors that her mother passed down to her...
To answer my first question, I guess it is inevitable. There are just certain things we cannot change, no matter how hard we try! And when I have a daughter of my own, she will find herself shocked at the fact that she is caught in the cycle as well - she'll probably rinse her fingers differently too, and doodle the same word over and over again while she is on the phone. She may never even realize that those actions are not her own!
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