Techno Magic

Oh the wonders of modern technology... the video and the DVD, the digi box and the remote... the satellite and the mobile phone, texts and e mail...and then we have the PC..the hub of the whole operation..that once was said would take over the mundane, hum drum jobs in the world.
Thank goodness we still have a few human beings around because when the broadband connection goes haywire, no machine can fix that, its down to the little man at the exchange to flick this or that switch which was what was required to bring our ADSL back online after some 3 days of no internet. Was i worried, well, not terribly, however, it did prove to me a couple of things...

• i am not a chat addict. i really didn't miss that side of my pc time that much.
• i am however, pretty dependent on a net connection for about every other aspect of my life. Be that, our personal banking, train time tables, dictionary, information centre, news, weather, in fact about every thing we do, we do via the internet. E Bay, shopping, keeping in touch with friends, all via the net, there is little or no need to even leave the comfort of my home.
• My blog caused me more ruffles than not being about to chat as i couldn't post my usual banter for a few days
• The kids were lost and had to do their homework in pen and paper for a change, without the use of net pages and info

The WWW has opened up the world at large and i find that the circle of friends i now have is vast and spreads to the four corners of the world, in fact, most of those i call friends i am never likely to met but that is ok because i can feel the truth and warmth coming from them more so than i can from some who live next door and who give off false representations of who they really are. i have more trust in some of those people i have met, who live thousands of miles from me, more faith in their words and more feeling and emotion for them than many of those who i am akin to, which is really odd when you think about it. i would go further and give more to some i have met via the net than i would for those who would happily take all that i had to offer without a second thought or backward glance and have proved this to me on many occasions.

Of course..there will always be the bad apple in any barrel and i have had my fair share of those too..the twisted, the warped, the liars and the cheats...they will always be around but i think that over my time on the net i have gained an insight into how people work and i can spot a fraudster a mile off, which is an advantage.

i am also empathic which means i can feel the genuine and the not so and i can usually tell when i am being lied to and when i am not and it has been said that cleo is not often wrong, so i do get some things right every now and then.

Its a bit of a shame tho that i cannot take that empathy and use it to my own advantage, to feel those things that might have some bearing on me and mine, but it has always been said and is well noted that these "gifts" that we are empowered with are never meant to be used for our own gain and as such it isn't something that i have ever felt the need to use, in fact, now i come to think about it, i have not once ever considered using it for my own ends, i wonder why not, maybe because i know somewhere deep down inside me that it wasn't given to me for that reason.
i seem to have this drawing force around me, that bring people to me for whatever reason, strangers who call to me, or do i call to them, i am not sure, but when the call is heard or answered, its usually for a reason and it usually has an end result that is of some benefit to all concerned. Well i hope that's how it turns out because if it doesn't, then i am probably using my gift badly and that would never do.
i seem to be a magnet that draws people to me from out of nowhere, for no apparent reason, they don't know why they are attracted to me nor i to them and yet, if we talk for a while, it usually becomes obvious that either one or the other has some snippet or some need to be a part of the circle i turn in and that as a result, some good comes out of the meeting.
i have experienced some strange meetings on the net with people who have sought me out, who have been pulled in my direction, they don't know why, they cannot explain it yet they know, they have this desire to come to where i am, not even to talk or to seek me out, but to be in the vicinity of this force i seem to radiate.
i have to say that sometimes, its a weird and scarey feeling, to have a stranger tap you on the cyber shoulder and say hi, why i am here i don't know, but i had to come. And that's happened so many times yet i am still not used to that but when it has, i seem to instinctively know no fear or have any doubt about why they have come.
Odd you might say and i cannot deny that it is and yet, hand on heart, this happens and has happened many times and each time it does it warms me beyond imagination.

Some one came to me, out of the blue and i hope that i can hold her hand if that is why she has come and in doing so, help her over some difficult times she may be having, To her, if she reads this i would like to say, Happy Birthday. May the light you see in your lil one eyes, warm you and show you that he is still with you and will always be so, for as long as you see him in her, you have not lost him.