I never use my "regular" internet names for forums (makes it too easy to find me) so this is something I came up with on the spot. It's from the phrase "two ships passing each other in the night", a metaphor for people who meet briefly and never interact again. I've recently dropped some people from my life and I've been thinking a lot about how relationships can be so fleeting.. One moment you think you're going to be friends with someone til you're both old and grey, the next you don't even know her number anymore.
That's pretty deep. And not the kind of fake "I'm deep, pay attention to me," kind...this actually made me step back for a second and really think about the ships in the night metaphor. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it! It originally came from "Tales From a Wayside Inn", a poem/prose piece by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, if you wanna read more about it.
Just out of curiosity, where else on the Internet do you use aliases besides on forums? I go to plenty of websites that are not forums, but they're usually either services that use my email address for registration or things that I don't register for at all.
Mostly steam & social media - but anything I use to follow/talk to people I know in real life, really. If I can afford to stay anonymous I use random aliases.
I never use my "regular" internet names for forums (makes it too easy to find me) so this is something I came up with on the spot. It's from the phrase "two ships passing each other in the night", a metaphor for people who meet briefly and never interact again. I've recently dropped some people from my life and I've been thinking a lot about how relationships can be so fleeting.. One moment you think you're going to be friends with someone til you're both old and grey, the next you don't even know her number anymore.
That's pretty deep. And not the kind of fake "I'm deep, pay attention to me," kind...this actually made me step back for a second and really think about the ships in the night metaphor. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it! It originally came from "Tales From a Wayside Inn", a poem/prose piece by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, if you wanna read more about it.
That's the perfect Internet user name.
Well said and very accurate.
Just out of curiosity, where else on the Internet do you use aliases besides on forums? I go to plenty of websites that are not forums, but they're usually either services that use my email address for registration or things that I don't register for at all.
Mostly steam & social media - but anything I use to follow/talk to people I know in real life, really. If I can afford to stay anonymous I use random aliases.
Ooohhh, I didn't even think of stuff like Twitter/Instagram/etc. I'm a dinosaur and don't use them so it didn't occur to me.