I was wondering the other day. Is it wondering or wandering? I never know. To wander is to walk about and to wonder is to ponder, I think. But each is a bit of the other. Anyhow, I was wondering how I would describe my job to someone who, not only had no concept of IT, but had no language. I would try to say that I fill up blank space with words, symbols and code. But that the space is not physical space, but temporal and made of bits and bytes. Dots and dashes. Blanks and solids. Two contradictory opposing opposite entities bound together to make something that is nothing...
But then, how would I even get that far without language. Not just without the English language, but without any known language for the purpose of communication.
Imagine being the sole survivor of a lost and finished tribe, with no language. No peers. No family. Nothing and no one to serve as points of reference. Nothing to define, limit or outline you.No parameters. No boundaries. Nothing to show time passing, moving, shaping...
what would that be like? I can't even begin to imagine, as all my thoughts are words.
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I often wonder while I wonder, so most of the time I see no difference. In fact, I think that's how I have and will spend the majority of my life.
Here's to that!
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