Enter

I stare at the "Enter" key.




Every time I press that key, the computer takes me to something new while locking up my previous action - leaving it behind. The same thing also often happens when I try to open a website. The word "Enter" serves as a gate, or, an usher, that welcomes and intrigues me to see what comes after. When I press that key, my whole being is taken from where I sit to the world "out there," a world of heterotopia. If I say Enter to five websites, there I am being and interacting in those five worlds. Voila, I become omnipresent! Well, maybe not omnipresent, because I can only be present in places that I choose to be in.

Synchronic? No, maybe not that term. Synchronic -according to Tom Boelstorff- is used to explain the situations when many people have to be online at the same time to interact. The antonym would be asynchronic, where members do not have to be online at the same time to interact, for example by using e-mails.
I can't find the word. Maybe I become virtual. or global. or I become non-place, or non-person. Wait, non-place? non-person? Aww, now the "Enter" key makes me lose my identity!

Or, maybe it is not me at all who enters this mysterious idea of "the world out there." Who can it be, then? my avatar, maybe. my typed words? could be. But how could it/she/he understand me much? Oh, maybe my avatar and I are one. Wait again, so it means that there ARE circuits within me. There are cables, electric tools inside of me. I am a cyborg, and this whole thing makes me confused.