What is distilled absence?

When I named this blog back in 2007, as a sophomore in college, I had no idea what it meant.
I still don't fully understand it, but I'm beginning to grasp what it means to be absent and to distill experiences.

To distill--I think that's what blog writing should be about. The goal is to distill unrefined and unstructured thoughts into coherent and packaged ideas that's easily digestible than the stream of conscious.

Absence--despite advances in modern technology, we still cannot be in more than one place at a time, which means most of us rely on communication to more fully experience the world. The internet has helped with this tremendously.

I wish to share my experiences with you in the most distilled form, so that even when you're not there, you could get the same intensity of feelings and thoughts as I have had when I was there.


One more note on absence: we are often absent when we are needed, absent as parents, as friends, and lovers, as co-workers, and as caretakers. This is unavoidable in modern life, but we can deal with it.

I'm Reborn!!!

Yayya! This marks the birth of my new blog. check out my old blog at:
xanga.com/matthewsun