A pesar de todo lo que he hecho para poder navegar los cambios con mayor facilidad. El último cambio significante por el que estoy atravezando esta siendo díficil. Creo que al final de esto voy a apreciar la experiencia. Sin embargo en este momento, aunque más hace 2 semanas estaba siendo muy pesado.
It’s getting close to two years since I left twitter, and I miss some parts, but not enough to get back to the site now named “X”. The first half of 2023, when I was still using it, and when I started to notice the dumb-scrolling behavior from my side. When my first free time of the year arrive I took a simple decision: I’ll stop using twitter while I’m in this place, I came here to relax not to be stuck on my phone, besides it’s just for a couple of days.
And those days went by fast, suddenly I was back at home, and I didn’t needed to go back to twitter. I suspected there were people and accounts I’ll miss, but in the great scheme of things I was better without twitter.
After weeks and months I noticed the things I was missing out by not being on twitter. My fútbol fandom reduced significantly, I lost track of the inner-public world of tennis, I don’t know anymore what’s on the life of the people or accounts that I used to follow, and again going back to it represented to loose more than to get back. Besides, who knows if the people I missed or the context that I miss are still there. -sigh-
Now at the moment of writing this I have understood and accepted that by being away of twitter my Spanish is not going to be up to date, now it’s frozen at a 2020-2023 state, and yet again I prefer this, even if I see that as a big consequence. But is not a consequence of leaving twitter. It’s a consequence of being an immigrant on a country where my native language is not widely spoken.
And I’ll continue missing and treasuring twitter, but what I miss and treasure does not exist anymore.
-- Update May 2025 --
I wrote this on November 2024, when I was on vacation. 6 months have passed, and things have evolved in a way that I’m glad and relieved that I’m no longer on that site. It was great for some time, when I micro blogged, no need to write long text, nor space for it. Then it evolved with the threads, I changed my use of it, to be a reader, it allowed me to kept following Mexican football from distance, now I can confirm I’m not longer a football fan, and even if my 13 year old wouldn’t believe it, this is where life has drove me. I’ve changed. I no longer miss twitter.
I don’t remember why, but I remember that I expend hours trying to figure out a good fountain pen that I could buy. I like to write by hand, I have countless notebooks, and as it’s an activity that I enjoyed, expending money on it it’s not a problem. Except that in the world of fountain pens it could be a problem.
I’m not someone who could just pick a thing, and go with it. I like to have some idea of which is the direction I’m going, how I can make small steps towards it and how to evaluate it. Which after a small looking around YouTube I settled on finding the best fountain pen for beginners that adjusted to my needs and preferences.
I wen’t through different videos, tutorials, compilations, rankings, women and men perspective, manufacturers styles and price ranges. The fountain pen world is big and diverse. It’s fascinating and full of passionate people. I got an understanding on what to evaluate for my first fountain pen, and I evaluated it.
At the end, what I was looking was not a type of pen specifically, but a type of writing. Fountain pen is not for me, or at least not for me at this point in time. The way I like to write is achievable with cheap ball pens, and what I want to be able to write can be done through learning calligraphy or lettering, nevertheless I’ll carry with me what I learnt from the peak I got about fountain pens.