The seeking

It started as exploration. Chats, forums, ICQ. Joomla to WordPress. Windows to macOS to Linux to OpenBSD. Small break in Plan 9. Old ThinkPad and netcat. IRC, Gopher, scripts, HTML. Someone in a Battlefield game chat figured it out a decade ago with "get a life." We knew. The perfect setup. The config file. The window manager. The script nobody needs. The dotfile never finished. For someone else, it may be the note-taking app, the TV series, the desk setup. The tool everyone is talking about. The trap that worked. Kill it and almost nothing is left. The noise is the trap. The internet was never that useful. No random scrolling, no news, no platforms. The internet goes quiet. The computer is idle. Shut down the computer and there is nothing waiting. The screen just filled that empty space cheaply. No risk. No failure. Cleaned the house and only time stays. Time for what? Replaced Battlefield with a feed reader and IRC with a static site. Same search. Different costume. The hunger just…