Throughout August, I did not almost get into the Internet, I did not participate in meaningless online discussions. To be more precise, they are meaningless when you are not in the “working front”. Returning to work (workplaces) and writing various texts every day, it is impossible to escape the daily news feed, one of its sources’ is the “Facebook”, where the entries sometimes suggest a topic. But just to follow these entries and not to participate in their creation and discussion, I still have not learned. E
specially, when you share “Aravot” materials and, naturally, are looking forward to see how they will be commented. Thus, you are getting involved in various types of conversations, on which you waste your time and get nervous.
In addition, sometimes I must answer the comments to my materials in Aravot.am. In other words, the Internet marsh swamps you, and you begin dreaming of “non-working situation”, when all that is far from you.
Internet charges, swearwords, “revelation of conspiracies” and so on can be compared with a mosquito bite: at first it is unpleasant, but if you endure for 15 minutes and not to itch, it will pass away and a small trace will be left which might show up for a few hours and then it will disappear, too. But if itch, it can bother you for a few days or more, and will become a memorable event in your life, and you might be complaining for a long time “that day the mosquitoes so bit me.”
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The online discussions have also similar mechanism, after the regular bite you must repress emotions and not to respond. 15 minute later the bite will seem unimportant and insignificant.
However, I would give a piece of advice to all those who post “final truths” in the Internet. This advice was formulated by one of the heroes of French writer Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt: “You are pondering over too much, because you place the thought between you and the world. You are more verbalizing than watching, you are based on biased notions without realizing the event. Instead of considering the reality, the way it exists, you see it through dark glasses, which you have placed on your nose… You are pondering over not enough, because you stamp in one place, you repeat, keep talking over general places, widespread opinion that you accept as truth rather than analyzing them. A parrot in the cage of own prejudices. You are pondering over too much and at the same time not enough, because you are not thinking independently.” These words only need to be signed underneath.
Aram Abrahamyan
