Anyone else "feel" this way?

I received a recent AlwaysOn Newsletter that included an article entitled “Lessons: How to be an Entrepreneur”. A subject I am keenly interested in as I believe this subject holds the secret to the new breed of worker that will bring innovation and stamina to the American workforce of tomorrow, I eagerly click on it only to be confronted with an opportunity to “view” an interview of Blake Krikorian of Sling Media give his take on the subject.

Immediately disappointed (and recognizing my first writing “subject” of the day), I was looking to read something; that’s why I have developed a voice in this medium – I like to read rather than watch, write rather than speak and, the most important part, be alone most of the time. Nonetheless (but slightly annoyed), I clicked on it to watch the short video to hear him say, among other things, the following very helpful advice about entrepreneurship, “There’s a million reasons why you won’t be successful. It doesn’t matter…don’t give up.”

I had to go back twice to get the quote right, and I think I did, but I’m not absolutely as positive as if I had been able to copy and paste his words into this post.

What’s up with this move to video on many of our pages? Is it the natural progression of the medium or is it just a shortcut to typin’ out a whole buncha’ words that might have to be grammatically formatted correctly with commas, quotes, etc., set with links, spellchecked and maybe rewritten? Is there something that stands to be lost in this transition or something more to be gained?

I know I sound like an old fuddy-duddy railing agin’ the times but I think there’s something at work here beneath the surface some may not have considered. Maybe it's my own reluctance to be seen in front of a camera - at 53, and as vain as I am, I know in my heart of hearts that the bloom is off the rose. Part of the charm of this medium, for me, though, is the ability to express myself in words, in private, in the quiet of my own envelope. At this point in my life the best place to be is at home, in front of the fireplace with my laptop in my lap. It was the noise and hullabaloo of the television that drove me out of that room in the first place. Now I get this creeping sensation that the noise and the havoc are returning, that my solitude is again going to be invaded and that there stands a chance voices like mine (as if anyone cares) and others much more highly valued will go, silently, into another dark night.

Can someone light the way for me? And oh, by the way, for those of you who read this as discouraging criticism from me, remember, “There’s a million reasons why you won’t be successful. It doesn’t matter…don’t give up.”

;)

“It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.” ~K.T. Jong


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