The Building Empties

I've noticed a thing. From what I've seen on facebook, it seems pretty clear that the people I know quite well are the people  who are least online. Like, on most evenings the majority of them are clearly taking advantage of the good weather we're having at home, or at least elsewhere engaging in real conversation.
To me, it's a clear example of how the type of people you can love, and the type of people who are just like you, can gravitate towards you. Most, if not all, kids and teenagers worry about whether people like them, but this is the wrong way to go about things. If you persue your own interests, the kind of people you will end up knowing for the rest of your life will just gravitate toward you.

God this is a cheesey post. Truths are like that I suppose. Everyone knows the answers to their problems, but have trouble facing them.
The cheese doesn't end, ugh!

The first thought up there had just occurred to me, I thought I'd write it down. I like to know that the people closest to me are away bettering themselves, either by reading, talking to a person face-to-face, or even watching TV or a movie on their laptops but disconneted from the Internet. I don't think many people in Ireland get it just yet, but there will soon come a time when it really becomes a problem that everyone is online all the time. Heck, I read an article about one of the founders of Google giving a graduation speech to a bunch of university students about the importance of switching off their computers or closing their laptops. He actually urged them to go and talk to someone face-to-face, as if this was something that really isn't happening enough. That is just crazy to me.
I just breezed through another article about job-seeking, advising Americans how to jobseek. Fine, no problem, but: the premise was that people weren't going out and handing in CVs themselves, and that this was considered going "above and beyond" the call of Jobseekers.

That is absurd.

How can it have come to the point that millions of people consider it acceptable to simply post a CV online, or e-mail it out of the blue to a company and expect a job to fall into their laps? It's only common sense that meeting someone with your CV in hand is the best way to go for applying for a job. I've always done it, my friends have always done it, and none of us have ever questioned it.
This whole thing was on theartofmanliness.com, and dressed accordingly; it was "manly" for one to "hit the pavement". No. It is "basic procedure" for one to "hit the pavement".

/rant. The whole thing rubbed me the wrong way. It seems like every time I read a column on useful advice, all I can think is "I do all of this, but I DON'T FEEL ANY BETTER FOR IT!" I think I'm more angry at the fact that advice is listed online, and that people should just know about it. Maybe I feel it's letting other people cheat and come to those conclusions without arriving at them themselves?

I dunno. Ah the advice is good, of course. The best one (that I found online) was one I saw recently about not letting what I think about a given situation ruin what it might become, to stop making assumptions about what people think and just go with it.

I've always felt that my gut instinct was to not trust my gut instinct. It's time to start listening to that.