14 years. Wow! That is how long ago my last post on this blog was. Well, in my other blog page, it was 2018, so that's 8 years since I last wrote something that is not work-related.
So, a rebirth. Yes, one day I woke up and just decided to revive my long lost love for expressing myself through words. When you become an adult and life becomes seriously full of responsibilities, you somehow forget about the things that used to excite you.
It's 2026 and the world has changed so much since my last post. I won't bore you with the details, but the world has now become both easy and difficult. Easy because technology has made far-off things become within reach, complicated things a bit simpler. But difficult because somehow you become lost amidst all the noise and information - you lose your voice, you second guess your abilities, and it is becoming harder to identify what is real.
The rebirth of this blog is my effort at grounding myself, to process my own thoughts, to chronicle my life again using my own words. This is a non-artificial blog - no AI-assisted posts. My life in my own words. The goal is not perfectly crafted posts, but ones that are authentically mine.
This rebirth also aims at helping me not to lose myself in a world full of curated social media feeds with perfectly crafted texts and captions. Everything is starting to become phony and synthetic these days - aimed at artificially manufactured perfection. The words people put out there are not their own anymore. They are losing their voice, their own words in pursuit of counterfeit flawlessness.
I feel like this is what I am becoming. I use AI so much at work, that I am now starting to depend on it so much for most aspects of my day to day. And the realization that I am losing myself in the artificialness of it all is dreadful.
But that dread is what I am now using to protect myself, my skills, my abilities, my humanness. This is my protest to the perfectly artificial world that we are now living.
xoxo,
Janjie
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