In Which I recall the Dynamic days of the early 2000s and early childhood with computers

Good afternoon, dear friend, reader of this post! How are you today? Hope your week is going fine! As for me, I am okay, yesterday was very harsh and I struggled feeling trapped and miserable, but today is okay. Turbulence, as it goes. The weather is lovely, it dawned grey and rainy, and the weather is waltzing through fall and into winter quite marvelously! So, there is that...

I want to wish of course a very happy birthday to two friends I adore, Mrs. J and Mr. J, as they are having their birthdays in close days from one another this April! I wish them such a wonderful new set of 365 days, and many more to follow! I worked on a drawing to dear Johannes, and wrote a message to him already, but I wanted to do some happy mentionings here as well. Much joy! By the way, here's the drawing to monsieur Johannes...

That alone would be a good reason to write a post, just to celebrate my great online friendships, but even before I was kindly reminded of his special day, I had a post in mind, to just write a bit about, again, my past with computers, I had an episode, or set of them, in my mind, that I wanted to recall...

 

Grandma did a course a long time ago, by now, around... 2004 I think? That was a time where I was blossoming into the world of technology, a world booming with new discoveries as well, as it was the dawn of the internet, that I did not have access off but for now it does not say much, because my focus was softwares of writing, such as word, that was a big one for me when I was young! Even PowerPoint, (tragically not Excell) and Paint, and Windows XP. Anyway, grandma was at this course, that had its own set of books with instructions! My eyes come to life when I think about it. Of course, you cannot see it as I am just writing about it, but trust me! I myself come to life entirely to remember those exciting days, and theu are really hard to come by, when you are so young as I was, around 6 years old... I loved computers! I loved writing in Word, wordpad, experimenting the different fonts, and using all the colors in them. The books, my grandma was doing the course to learn how to use Windows and the new array of tools getting available. She did not learn much at all, but for me, those books for me was like cultivating barley in the river Nile just after the flood.

It was of course not the only books I'd consume as a kid, my mom was an architect, just starting on her professional life as a teacher as well, and I would read her books on how to use AutoCad, CorelDraw (not the Adobe Suite softwares for some reason, I suppose CorelDraw was more of the usage in the very early 2000s)... Later in life I would resent Autocad, but as a kid, seeing those blueprints set my mind into a nuclear energy level of creative force. Kids have their things they like, until then I loved cars, and specially the older ones, but after the Autocad books, I started drawing houses and blueprints, all sort of stuff! I did not entirely abandoned cars, but houses and drawings would soon be a part of my life. Now, for a long time my drawings were kid's drawings, and quite mediocre at that, but what a joy to do them, even if I struggled to draw a single stick figure. I have come a long way when it comes to drawings...

The beautiful colors of Windows XP, in saturation, and the wallpapers, and the videogames too, I was never into consoles, the only experience I had with them was the Wii, and in another moment of my life. No, I was into computers, and the colors, and the beauty of clicking buttons and seeing what would come of them. No internet, that also came much later, but still... Woe of the kids of today, I wonder if they ever will experience what I did, at their age. Today nothing seems new, it is just buildings above other older ones, when I saw them being expanded, the scaffolding going up! And my own town, when I was a kid, also expanding. It was a small capital when I was very young. I remember what a huge deal it was when its mall got the first expansion, and then another mall opened there in 2010, with a slightly better cinema room, at the height of the 3D craze! A new world seemed to be growing with me, all around! Ah, whatever happened, such enthusiasm is almost hard to come by today. Much happened and everything seems much more stale now. More dreary... One can only hope to recover the spark of the magic 2000's.

No, it was not perfect in my life, but I am not talking of the bullying and the darkness of OCD on this one, because there is a whole different story, much more positive, happening at the same time, same moment, not in paralel either! And not the only good one, and not the only bad one... maybe I was just young. Perhaps my family was in a moment of dynamism... my city was growing, none could smell the stagnation of years later. All along terrible things were happening too, take in mind those were the most red socialist years in brazilian history, they put all that energy to waste, as these useless craps do, those socialists, one cannot detest them enough, but we are also not talking of them today. It was quite a time, a time where I would write odd stories with no beginning and no ending at the old Windows 98 computer of Grandma... 

I would not go back, as you could tell those were not rosy times by any stretch, but wow I miss that energy... maybe I could blame high school for taking my joie de vivre away for so many miserable years, or all the friendships that died, or the weirdness of navigating social life in social media at its awakening... I do still feel alive though, when I write here for example, and when I do a drawing, eventually I feel happy once more, and when I play on the computer, or learn something new on software, or adapt Windows 11 to look a bit more like another windows of another moment of my life, Windows Vista/Windows 7... I keep on feeling such an odd estrangement on how an operational system can have an impact on me... yet it did, a strong one. Windows 8 could never, I tell you, and you can trash on Windows 11 all you want, and I'd join you at moments, but it is an attempt to recover the spark that Windows 8 and 10 threw out the window. No one can hate minimalism enough. I suppose is another thing to take from my ramblings.

That is it for me today, I suppose, I did write quite a bit! Was not aiming at this much, even did not know if I could do it, yet here we are, wrapping up another happy post, and happy one this is indeed. God bless this day, He has made it and we should rejoice and be glad in it. So, I wrote quite a bit, you all know how I feel about the big posts. I will leave it here. There is no need to worry if at all, I will be right back, hopefully in the weekend, and it could be time to wrap the month of April with it, as May comes.... thank you for being here, wish you the best! And I see you again real soon, so no worries.