Retired. How to live happily
in the digital world? After watching movies, after talking with friends via the
Internet? Explore the digital universe, not to mention the minds of men already
recorded here, there and everywhere. Yes, you can be sharing their
ideas, sharing your ideas.
For the good of all,
not for the bad of some!
The greatest good is Love, and that is what I have been sharing in my blogs.
Love has many shades: You agree.
You correct gently. You expand the horizon of someone. You present a different
view without mentioning what You disagree with, and without insulting someone.
No, I have not always been
kind to people I disagree with. But I have learned my lesson – if you believe
you are right, why do you have to insult people whom you believe are wrong?!
You are not a writer?
You can write short pieces and share them on Facebook. Lovelier with image/s. Ask
a friend to help you put in an image or two.
Look into your inner world
and decide which ones encourage you, inspire you, make you happier. Those are
the things that you should be going after in the digital world especially
when feeling low.
You think the Internet is only for Facebook hounds like them and
bloggers like me – think better! Yes, the digital world is for everyone who can
press a PC keyboard, no exceptions.
Nobody told me to go blogging, but it changed my intellectual life for
the better. I have been blogging in the last 24 years, since 2000, while
illustrating my articles mostly with my own photographs collected over the
years.
After high school, 1957, I
learned to type via the kindness of my cousin Luciana
Gaño-Llamas. When I was already teaching high school in our town,
Asingan, Pangasinan, I ordered by mail a portable Corona typewriter. In other words, I had already at that
time decided that I would be a writer the rest of my life. (God, I’d like to
spend the rest of my life blogging until I am 111, please!)
A very wide reader in high school yet in the early 1950s, little did I
know that the digital world would come along – and I would become a denizen
there! Today, I blog every so often. At this time, I probably have blogged
50,000 essays of different lengths, the shortest being 517 words, like this one,
including the title. (517 is Frank A Hilario.)
You, retiree you, you can begin with Facebook. Everyday, I scan the
pages of & faces on Facebook. You can post about almost anything – ask someone
to teach you how to include an image or two. You will love it!
“Happy Retirement” should mean travelling the world of the Internet. Thank
God for Facebook!@517
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