Have you started to think in tweets...

To be honest it comes out of my own neurosis, but then again, doesn't everything?

So, i have found myself living my life in tweets.  Yes, i am one of those on twitter.  I hate to admit i was skeptical at first, the whole concept seemed the height of egotism and really pointless.  HA, I should have known i would LOVE it!

In case you are not familiar, Twitter, is microblogging, you get 140 characters to say your piece. You may say what you are doing, link an interesting find online, anything you choose with those few 140 characters.  You "follow" others on twitter, and  you get their updates all day and night long!  I have sadly found it is a great replacement for a relationship.  Seriously, no more missing talking to that special someone just before bed, here you have hundreds, thousands of people wanting to tell you something at all times of the day or night.

So anyway, as i was chatting with a friend who is new to twitter, at first you feel this sort of self-conscious careful scripting of your tweets, but then very quickly that falls aside and you just say whatever, free stream of conscious thought often.  

So anyway, back to the character of my fabulous indie cult film...

So i envision this character living his/her whole life interrupted by the need to tweet. Examples: Dog runs into the street, but our character stops to tweet about it and missing the chance to call the dog back before the dog gets run over.  Ok, clearly this is why i have no future as a screenwriter.  But you get the idea right?

I guess what all this twittering is getting me to wonder, it feels like i am making this shift to always talking about, analyzing, reflection on or telling about my life, rather than simply living it.  And this is not new for me, we all have our unique internal worlds.  Well i tend to live my life always looking for the next quirky story.  Crazy relatives and family dynamics being a great start, but it carries over into all areas of my life.  I always act as though i am just one of those people that has strange shit happen to her all the time, but truth be told, i think i am just constantly on the lookout for the strange shit. (and have a gift for exaggeration!)  So i have always tended toward this storytelling way of living, now i am just doing it on a truly micro and less funny level all the time!

So all this twitter focus is making me question if there is a way to turn all this action into a spiritual practice.  Is it a way to be a witness to the thoughts, emotions, etc that are arising in me?  Or am i simply getting trapped in a world of ego-madness!

We'll see, but for now just join me at http://twitter.com and of coursefollow me!