My biggest, stupid, crazy mistake was getting on the Internet. Now I'm so hooked I cannot leave it alone for a single day, and I think I am beginning to go crazy.
Every single night I lie awake thinking HTML tags. How can I make a decent banner? Is my site content any good? Will I ever get paid to do this sort of thing? Noooooo! I never will. But I can't leave it alone.
Each morning I have to check my e-mail, I don't care about breakfast or anything. When I'm online I have to check my regular Usenet groups, visit a couple of chat rooms where I like to hang out, and send some instant messages to my buddies who are online too. But this is all getting out of hand - I realised that all my friends now are online ones. I used to have real friends too but they have all just gone.
I have lost touch with so many people it scares me. When I do eventually crawl out of my hole and go outside, I see people I used to know just a couple of years ago and they just grunt at me, they have nothing to say. That's not their problem, it's mine. How can they be expected to make conversation with a geek who's gone so far he can't see life beyond his Geekcode?
I spend too much time with my computer and not enough being human. I think I'm addicted, maybe I need to see a shrink, I dunno, but on the few nights when I don't lie awake thinking HTML tags, I find myself wondering, "Hey, wouldn't it be great to do things that other people do - hang out, go to bars and restaurants, maybe stay home and watch TV? You know, just normal things?". Then it's back to the HTML.
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