Can anyone explain to my why it is that I check my email a thousand times a day? I don't get that much email, especially since the advent of Facebook. I rarely get any email of consequence, mostly forwards from friends or junk. I don't mean for Viagra or anything but stores who I have foolishly given my address to, etc.
Anyway, I check my email way to often. I also check Twitter and Facebook compulsively. In many ways it has replaced my tv watching habit. I did take a Facebook break for 5 days and it was fine. I kicked tv for the most part except the odd indulgence of a dvd bender once and a while. For example I have been on a Criminal Minds binge this weekend. It helps with all the chopping and peeling to be immersed in murder and mayhem.
Anyway I don't even know why I am rambling on about this. Except that I have been thinking about how much technology is part of our daily lives. The computer, the tv, the cell phone... technology is everywhere and it permeates my life, our lives. Right now I am in my basement watching tv, writing this on my laptop, being warmed by an electric heater, while the washer and dryer whirl away while my husband is up stairs blowing up alien bugs on his computer. We are totally typical in our social circle. But I can't help but wonder what it would be like with out all these means of interaction/ distraction. Would I read more? Visit with friends more? Clean my house more? Would I have longer conversations with my husband? Would I sleep better at night? Would I find it easier to tap into my creative energy? Would I be a better cook? Would I know how to knit or sew? I won't be able to answer those questions of course. I can't and wouldn't remove all this technology from my life. It is a part of who I am and the universe that I live in.
But it is certainly worth recognizing that I spend too much time with all these electronics. That I should shut it all down once and a while. Like now... yeah... good idea.
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