Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Internet Lacks Depth

The internet, of course, is our gateway to knowing anything about nearly everything. However, I find an area of information the internet does lack: The answers to life's deeper questions...or at least deeper than "What's on TV tonight?"

Old friends and I keep tabs on each other through Facebook. So, the age-old saying "You probably won't think about them in ten years" has been proven wrong. I pretty much know how the people I knew ten years ago are doing now, and it's pretty profound how are lives have changed in this seemingly small amount of time.

Thinking about this lead me to search Google for 'self-fulfillment'. It suggested a book on Amazon.

Now, it's not Google's fault it couldn't lead me to feeling like less of a failure because I haven't accomplished anything notable yet. However, it made me realize: There are problems that cannot be solved with a Google Search. (Perhaps Bing?)

It's profound to think that the internet holds the opinions of all the world, yet no one knows how to achieve self-fulfillment or has the perfect cure for boredom or knows how to improve a relationship.

Perhaps I should be the geek who creates the website to solve all of these problems. Though, the fact I'm looking for them probably means I don't have a clue about the answer. This project would require a lot of time and thought.

Either that or surrender to the notion that the internet will never have all the answers.

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