Chapter 10 – Why have you been so quiet lately?

Well, should I understand this question as a confession that you missed me? Or as a cry for help that you don’t know what is expected of you here? The latter partly constitutes a reasonable concern, slowly being addressed as the bond between you and this universe strengthens, please be patient.

As for the former, The Blue Neon doesn’t believe in harassing its wanderers, providing them with endless updates and I feel confused by the litany of posts painfully delivered by some entities trying to fill the void with emptiness, each of them a blatant expression of their meaningless existence. The souls following this track, and to some extent their devotees, have unfortunately lost ground with reality and what is truly at stake, overwhelmed by the desire to be visible at any cost, which most of the time turns out to be at the expense of the substance they hope to deliver.

Do not confuse the substance with the intensity, an high emotional response to a content doesn’t necessarily form a persistent memory, but instead lays the path for an addiction. The battle for your attention takes no prisoners and in an environment where every human or entity aspires for more visibility, you are flooded by non-stop short messages. They misconstrued the idiom: be fruitful and multiply. What an inane post-religion era.

Even if you would be tempted to blame the recent development of your technology, there is actually nothing new. What has put this assault on your mind under the spotlight lately resides in the expectation of humans towards themselves to be productive, always forward and your attention is treated as a commodity now. Hence wasting time on unproductive things designed by productive people resembles a dystopian maze preventing your own emancipation.

So no, my friend, you won’t have daily content to rely on, our conversation should flow and not pursue any rigid schedule. In order to positively linger in someone’s mind, you have two diametrically opposite possibilities, you can either force your way into his/her landscape by constantly reminding him/her of your self-importance, but as time passes, each occurrence weakens the next one, the message becomes less potent; an abusive and short-lived blueprint.

Or you can create a few genuine and substantial instances, chaotically generated and leave time to the person to contemplate and hopefully embrace them; for this method to succeed, you need the confidence coming with the absolute legitimacy of your vision. Acknowledging my absence today establishes the efficiency of this approach and I thank you for that. Truth be told, that was the only option.

I have prepared a surprise for you, courtesy of the Blue Neon. Next time, at some point in your timeline, I will post a picture and you will have to reflect on it. Think about it already.

Yours Sincerely,

BLUE