PostCrossing excitement!
17 days ago, I joined a site called ‘Postcrossing.com”, which is a service that allows you to send & recieve postcards from anywhere in the world. I’m not too keen on sharing my address with strangers, but I figured, that’s what a lot of the world is like today. Everyone worries about losing their identity, or exposing it, ’stranger-danger’ and all of that. It’s all important, understandable, justifiable considering the world we live in today, however, I think it’s a little sad, or a shame that we don’t have much appreciation for what is in the world at the moment. I don’t think I worded that right, but basically, I want to know what’s going on in the world, I really do. Living in Perth is boring, it’s uneventful, full of wishes, but there’s no inspiration here. I feel like I shouldn’t be in this city, that there’s somewhere else out there for me. A place I can really feel a sense of belonging and a place I can call home. Perth will always be a home, only because I was born here, but I need a bigger source of inspiration for my mind.
Anyway, that was going a little bit off track. So yeah, on one of my favourite sites (Photojojo.com) there was an article in the archives that featured a site called Postcrossing.com. This looked interesting, so I read on to find that you can send and recieve postcards from people ALL over the world. I was a bit scepticle about it at first, because of the whole security thing, but just this evening I thought what the heck, just do it. So I requested an address, and I got one. Obviously I won’t share the address in the blog, but this person is from Finland! After you’ve requested, it even states how many kilometers you and that person are from each other… very cool. 8D So, I read her profile, and she’s into drawing like me! As well as crafts too. I was thinking of sending a drawing, but being frank about it, my drawings are too precious to me at the moment to give away to strangers who I don’t know well. Although there’s nothing much to it (you just get a postcard, write on it, then send it), I still feel really… I duno, I guess warm inside and excited! I don’t know this girl, but she’s two years younger than me, we’re from completely different backgrounds, and thankfully she can speak and read English (well, I guess it is the International language, but you never know), plus we have an interest in drawing, and we’ll most likely never meet, yet this postcard I’ll be sending her, is our connection… I guess. Kind of brings the world a little closer to home. In a way that’s a good thing, so you’re aware of what’s out there in this planet, but can also be a bad thing. For now though, I hope that I can enjoy the good thing about this service, rather than have to worry about the negative things.
I guess tomorrow after my assessment in the morning, it’s off to look for a postcard. =S
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