The following is written in purpose of sharing my experience being a overly active online individual , and perhaps suggesting members of this community concerning setting your priorities.
I would like to first and foremost note that I should certainly not be accounted as a role mode, but rather as a person who has been on the same path as arguably many individuals reading this topic, whether that be being a webmaster, coder or designer as one of the few usual activities someone on this community of often assumed to be doing.
Admittedly, I've been rather passive concerning the quantity of posts considering the amount of years I've been a member here (5), as I seem to drop by each year on the anniversary of my membership to reminisce and give thanks to all those great friends and mentors whom I've been lucky to cooperate with during my joyful experience.
As I assume a very limited number of members will actually be interested into reading this rather personal, essay if you will, I shall do my best into trying to keep it short, sweet and clearly convey my message.
Perhaps a very cliche thing to say, would be that technology is bound to us; business, friendship, relationship and family wise.
Throughout my online career I've been blessed to have the opportunity to be part of many online projects with other great, skilled and well experienced members of this website, in many areas of online entrepreneurship, for what I am and will always be grateful. Therefore I've been through it all; countless nights with no sleep, slacking in school, fighting with people I care about, spending the majority of my daily time sitting on a computer consequently affecting my own health and many other hardships that came as a result of my excessive usage of the internet.
I was young, keen to learn and gain experience, motivated, helpful and willing to help, do things and favors without really thinking much about it, that is because I was in much need of something new each and every time, meanwhile by the time I had realized how things had turned out to be, I was already the fat, socially deprived, alone, shy and awkward guy.
A wake up call happened about 3 years ago when I nearly failed my senior year at school; not that I was a bad students, I was alert, attentive, but I just did not have the will to study, which certainly affected my life, the online part of it and the real part likewise, it eventually resulted into me not maintaining the same rapports with certain individuals, not being part of all those, big and famous (not really) projects me and my online comrades would often contemplate as I took the decision to take a break from it.
Anyways, long story short, I am now in second year in College, doing just fine and dropping by here every 3-4 months and hanging out for about 10 minutes, I have overcome almost all of those difficulties I had come across a few years ago and feel generally better about myself, the people I hang around with and am enjoying life at its fullest.
It would be safe to say that this humongous online presence of mine has had a huge impact on the previous years of my life and I feel proud to announce that I am happy with my choice, to take time off everything that involved sitting in a computer for the majority of time during the day or night.
As initially explained, this is rather a personal post which was necessary to get out of my chest at a certain point and believe it or not, it is already affecting me into feeling better as far as my online presence goes.
My most sincere, truly heartfelt advice to anyone who is a excessive user of the internet, whether that be owning a online business, aspiring to be a programmer, designer or webmaster, my advice to you is to manage your time and online presence.
That's right, take a break; go ahead and log off from everything that keeps you hooked online, laptops, computers, smartphones, just log off, go and meet your family, see how they're doing, take them out; go to a dinner, have a coffe together with your friends, go out, meet new people and feel excited about life again.
Well, if someone has made it so far I congratulate you reaching this milestone, it was perhaps a bit boring, nevertheless I appreciate your effort and willingness to show interest into reading this piece of my online story, it was definitely not easy for me to write it as I am usually not the sentimental, willing to share my feelings and experiences with the now unknown world out here type of guy, therefore thank you for reading this, please reminisce, reflect and enjoy your life, help others, be nice to people, do positive things.
I would like to first and foremost note that I should certainly not be accounted as a role mode, but rather as a person who has been on the same path as arguably many individuals reading this topic, whether that be being a webmaster, coder or designer as one of the few usual activities someone on this community of often assumed to be doing.
Admittedly, I've been rather passive concerning the quantity of posts considering the amount of years I've been a member here (5), as I seem to drop by each year on the anniversary of my membership to reminisce and give thanks to all those great friends and mentors whom I've been lucky to cooperate with during my joyful experience.
As I assume a very limited number of members will actually be interested into reading this rather personal, essay if you will, I shall do my best into trying to keep it short, sweet and clearly convey my message.
Perhaps a very cliche thing to say, would be that technology is bound to us; business, friendship, relationship and family wise.
Throughout my online career I've been blessed to have the opportunity to be part of many online projects with other great, skilled and well experienced members of this website, in many areas of online entrepreneurship, for what I am and will always be grateful. Therefore I've been through it all; countless nights with no sleep, slacking in school, fighting with people I care about, spending the majority of my daily time sitting on a computer consequently affecting my own health and many other hardships that came as a result of my excessive usage of the internet.
I was young, keen to learn and gain experience, motivated, helpful and willing to help, do things and favors without really thinking much about it, that is because I was in much need of something new each and every time, meanwhile by the time I had realized how things had turned out to be, I was already the fat, socially deprived, alone, shy and awkward guy.
A wake up call happened about 3 years ago when I nearly failed my senior year at school; not that I was a bad students, I was alert, attentive, but I just did not have the will to study, which certainly affected my life, the online part of it and the real part likewise, it eventually resulted into me not maintaining the same rapports with certain individuals, not being part of all those, big and famous (not really) projects me and my online comrades would often contemplate as I took the decision to take a break from it.
Anyways, long story short, I am now in second year in College, doing just fine and dropping by here every 3-4 months and hanging out for about 10 minutes, I have overcome almost all of those difficulties I had come across a few years ago and feel generally better about myself, the people I hang around with and am enjoying life at its fullest.
It would be safe to say that this humongous online presence of mine has had a huge impact on the previous years of my life and I feel proud to announce that I am happy with my choice, to take time off everything that involved sitting in a computer for the majority of time during the day or night.
As initially explained, this is rather a personal post which was necessary to get out of my chest at a certain point and believe it or not, it is already affecting me into feeling better as far as my online presence goes.
My most sincere, truly heartfelt advice to anyone who is a excessive user of the internet, whether that be owning a online business, aspiring to be a programmer, designer or webmaster, my advice to you is to manage your time and online presence.
That's right, take a break; go ahead and log off from everything that keeps you hooked online, laptops, computers, smartphones, just log off, go and meet your family, see how they're doing, take them out; go to a dinner, have a coffe together with your friends, go out, meet new people and feel excited about life again.
Well, if someone has made it so far I congratulate you reaching this milestone, it was perhaps a bit boring, nevertheless I appreciate your effort and willingness to show interest into reading this piece of my online story, it was definitely not easy for me to write it as I am usually not the sentimental, willing to share my feelings and experiences with the now unknown world out here type of guy, therefore thank you for reading this, please reminisce, reflect and enjoy your life, help others, be nice to people, do positive things.
