Who wants to live in the real world anyway!

I know I'm not the first and I'm sure I won't be the last but...I realised a few days ago that I spend more time in the Cyber world than I do in the real one. I'm either writing my blog, entering competitions online talking on Twitter or Facebook or getting lost in Grimney!

I find myself rushing to do things that need to be done on planet reality so that I can get back into my cyber world. My dog doesn't like it, she sits staring at me quite often as if willing me to 'come away from that box'.
She's happy enough today though because we've been playing in the park for two hours so she's tired enough not to notice that I'm on the box in the corner again!

My husband doesn't mind too much, he's in his own little cyber world much of the time! We do meet up in the real world for a coffee occasionally though......

The most surprising aspect of this is my growing addiction to Grimney. I - or at least my character - has been having lots of adventures there recently. The difference between Grimney and planet earth is that you can control what happens to your life!

I used to spend quite a lot of time uploading articles and poetry to various publications in the hope that they would not only publish my scribblings but pay me as well. I don't do that so much nowadays though because I find that simply writing for the pleasure of it is far more enjoyable. My words may not be the most profound that you've ever read but they are MY words and I don't have to have anyone's permission to get them published.

During that particular period when I was desperate to be a published writer, I  wrote a poem called 'Cyberspace Race' My daughter then turned it into a song for me which gave me a huge thrill! I can now add the rather impressive title of  'songwriter' to my growing list of credentials.

What?

Well, other people blag their way through life so why shouldn't I?

So until next time I leave you with my poem and my song!!

                                                 CYBERSPACE RACE

My words of wisdom keep disappearing

Into cyberspace

I don’t want to grumble

But I’m sort of losing face

All my words are disappearing

To a black hole sort of place

You see

I’ve joined the cyberspace race

The cyberspace race

The cyberspace race

My words are disappearing

Into cyberspace

Now that I’ve joined

The cyberspace race

One day I’m going to get a call

From an alien in another world

He’ll say Your words are clever

And I wondered if you’d ever

Had them published

No not yet

I just upload them on the net

But I’ve never heard a word, not yet

You see:

The cyberspace race

The cyberspace race

My words are disappearing

Into cyberspace

Since I joined the cyberspace race

Log in, Log out

Log in, Log out

All this white space

What is it all about?

The cyberspace race

The cyberspace race

Think I’ll cancel my subscription

To the cyberspace race

All my creative juice

Is floating round in cyberspace.

 http://soundcloud.com/barbarathomas#play (Copy and paste this link to bring up player)