Welcome to SoWyrd.com. Today marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. It’s hard to imagine life without the web, without search engines, without Google. The web provides immediate access to information, in real time, right at your fingertips. August 23rd, 1991, was the first day the web became available to the public. On this day, 25 years ago, a new platform to share knowledge was born. ”Internaut Day” is a celebration of the internet. Think of an astronaut exploring the internet instead of outer space and you have internaut. It is the celebration of when the web began. August 23rd also happens to be my birthday. *Although a titch before 1991...or almost a decade…but, whatever!* Have you ever noticed everything vital happens in threes? It’s the web of wyrd. Sowyrd.com is the union of the World Wide Web to the Web of Wyrd to the So Wyrd. The Three Sisters of fate.
The birth of the web, the birth of Sowyrd.com and the birth of me were all on August 23rd, but in different years. That’s wyrd! "Wyrd" is pronounced "weird" or "word" and can be described as the matrix of fate. Take the red pill or the blue pill? *Fuck it. Take both pills.* I like to call it "wired" because it creates distinction between weird and wyrd. That guy who walked by you on the street, muttering to himself that he is God and the world is about to end, is weird. That time you learned what wyrd meant, and suddenly experienced it happening all around you, is wyrd. The paradox is that coincidence may not exist and events do actually happen for a reason. We can change the way we view our past and make plans to alter our future, but we should focus on our present. Live for the moment. Which is something very few of us actually do because life is too damn busy. There is so much to do that we don't have time to experience our present. I am presently on the journey myself. *Pun intended.* I threaded the needle with my past. I’m sewing my present. And I’m weaving the pattern that creates the future I desire. Or I’ve lost my mind, which is totally possible.
*Just ask my friends. They must worry I’ve lost my mind quite often, which is why they’re my tribe…because they continue to put up with me. Lol! Can I say "lol" in a blog? I don't know. Are there rules? Probably. There are always rules…so many irritating, pointless rules. But I'm a spirit-of-the-law kinda gal, not a letter-of-the-law kinda lady, so laugh out loud or lol. I don’t really care. Just be you and I’ll be me. Let’s all be real. **A future blog post in the making.** HOLY SHIT, I blabber a lot. Told ya!*
The truth is that none of us are special. We're all experiencing wyrd. The "Three Sisters" symbolize the past, the present and the future. Once you open your mind to the concept of wyrd, once you recognize it, you might notice it all around. You’ve just never paid attention before. When you talk about a show you haven’t seen in forever and that very night it comes on and you think, "Gee, that's weird, I was just talking about this." Guess what? It's not weird. It's constant. You just need to watch for it. Pay attention to it. It’s like waking from a dream when you didn't realize you were even asleep. When there are too many coincidences for it to actually be a coincidence, it’s wyrd! When life is strange, start thinking in terms of wyrd and write your own destiny. Your reaction to the past creates your future so take control. Find your passion. Find your happiness. Find your purpose. Perhaps we’ll achieve world peace.
*And beauty-pageant-contestants from around the globe will rejoice. Hey, nothing personal against beauty queens, but that was getting way too cheesy so I had to throw beauty queens under the bus…figuratively, not literally, of course. You gotta watch this clip from Miss Congeniality real quick, we’re talking 52 seconds, click it! Captain Kirk, also known as William Shatner, “What is the one most important thing our society needs?” To which Sandy Bullock, as Miss Congeniality, replies, “That would be harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.” Dead silence. “…and world peace,” then the applause begins. “Thank you, Gracie Lou.” “And thank you, Stan.” So funny!*
Am I lost in my delirium or is there some way to make sense of it all? Everything is unified. Everything is connected. By understanding wyrd, we realize we're in control of our own destiny and we're all in this together. I certainly don't completely understand it myself. Not even close. Let’s take this journey as a collective and explore wyrd together. A brilliant researcher, Brian Bates, described wyrd best with, "Today, the term ‘weird’ means something strange, bizarre, or supernatural. But in its archaic and original sense, it meant that aspect of life which was so deep, so all-pervasive, and so central to our understanding of ourselves and our world, that it was inexpressible."
*As a bonus, this website will save my tribe from the onslaught of my constant blabbering. Now they can just close the page when it becomes tiresome. Okay, okay! Again, let's be real. I’ll continue blabbering out of my mouth-hole in person, as well. I think it's embedded in my DNA.*
Internauts UNITE! *And will someone please get me a pocket protector? Because. Nerd alert!*
Here is some wonderful research about wyrd written by Brian Bates:
http://www.wayofwyrd.com/introduction_pc.html
Hopefully your interest has been satisfied enough to visit again. *Cheers* to the web’s 25th birthday! I literally don’t know how the world functioned before “The Google,” but I’m old enough to remember that it did, which makes me appreciate its magic all the more. Happy Internaut Day! *Clink.*
As Dirty J sang in "Red Lights"
"You cannot stop me, I'm the vital one
Let me get lost in my delirium
You cannot stop me, I'm the vital one
Let me get lost in my delirium."
/dəˈlirēəm/
Noun
1. An acutely disturbed state of mind that occurs in fever, intoxication, and other disorders and is characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech.
o Wild excitement or ecstasy.
synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, transports, wild emotion, passion, wildness, excitement, frenzy, feverishness, fever; euphoria, elation.
"The delirium of desire.”