As I was sinking into one of my re-occurring reflecting and insightful moods (also known as day-dreaming) I thought of AC. About the people there, what kind of lives they might live. What the similarities were, and also the differences.

Of course, although AC is American-owned, it is fast becoming a global site.

The first thing that set me off thinking along these lines were the time-differences. By now I’ve become pretty good at working out what time it is in many places. Still, I always feel slightly sorry for the Americans, as they are always 18 hours behind us. It seems that I’ve already lived their yesterday.

And Europe is usually 12 hours difference. This is easier, at least for me.

Still it’s always fun to get a comment from India when it’s evening here and afternoon there.

But fiddling with several time-zones is only a minor issue.

“why have you joined AC?” Now we’re getting to the crunch. Because the answer is always the same: “Because I like writing”. And true too: if you didn’t like writing you wouldn’t join something like AC. Still, you could’ve bought a diary, opened a blog or you could’ve written long, long shopping lists. But you didn’t.

You had something to tell us: the rest of the world. And, if you get into some serious keywording, millions outside AC will read your articles too. And The Wise People at AC let you write about nearly any subject under the rainbow.

But, it’s not just about writing and getting all those creative juices going. Once that’s done; the Publish button has been pushed and you lean back in your chair congratulating yourself with a glass of wine, something else is happening.

Okay, your work is done; the article is out there, you can go to bed now and have sweet dreams. But people like me are still up and about; reading, reading. Watching posted video’s, looking at pictures, listening to great voices who sing beautiful songs. (Yes, on AC, and these are our own CP”s!!)

AC is fast becoming a global smorgasbord of all the above. And if it weren’t for AC, you and I would’ve missed out on all this talent. And not only all this talent, but also opinions.

I’ve learned so much about American Politics,(for example) that I’ve learned more about it over the past weeks than that of my own country. These are the voices of real people; not a commentator on TV.

Not being a great cook I’ve found several recipes that even a klutz like me can cook. Not only that, I’ve found articles giving me advice on every subject that I can think of. Also: I read articles that made me laugh in times when I felt down, and got good tips on how to date (should that ever be necessary). I’ve travelled the world through reading articles, bought cd’s because other CP’s thought they were good. I could go on forever.

Q:”Why have you joined AC?”

A:”Because you (AC)’ve brought the world to me”

Read, people, read other’s articles too. Don’t just write an article and turn off the computer.