It's a funny thing. When you give your body a chance to rest and recover from whatever-it-is-that-ails-you, sometimes you feel worse than before. I think it's our body's way of saying, "Hold up! Give me some more time." That's me now. I don't have any disease, but just a continual exhaustion. Better, but not cured.
And in my necessary quietness, I got to thinking about the Internet and how different our lives would be without it. Blessed in ways, but cursed in others by being online.
If we didn't have the Internet: So many books wouldn't be shared or even written. So many narcissists wouldn't have an audience. Children behaving better, marriages richer, but fewer recipes to make and fewer friends to claim. See, good and bad. And maybe one of the most significant---better self-images if we didn't continually inundate ourselves with comparisons to folks we don't even know. Even this afternoon, I was looking at some blogs I follow, and after I turned off my phone, looked around and felt awful. Like I was living in a dump, which I don't, but still, it felt like it.
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Oldest daughter went to a tea party at a new friend's house yesterday and the husband was installing rabbit ears in their attic. They'd just cancelled Comc*ast for their cable company and needed the antenna to get a signal. Fewer stations, yes, but free. We've done the same. My husband got online and made from scratch an antenna for our bedroom tv and we'd never taken down the big old antenna on our roof, which is linked to our living room set. Works great. Not sure how many stations we get, but maybe ten. It varies, to be honest.
Our Internet connection is through our cellphones, with a gadget giving us a hotspot (using a gadget called a hockey puck or something like that), which allows us a certain amount of fast-speed, then unlimited slower-speed through our laptops. In about two weeks each month we use up the fast, and now we're slogging along. Like the old phone connection. Don't load photos, watch videos, or hope for anything to load quickly. But, so much less expensive. Biggest plus, for households with children---you can turn off the hotspot. Love that.
So many folks are going backward. Less technology, more focus on less. Think on that one. We jumped en masse on the bandwagon with all that the Internet offered so many years ago, and later on (maybe) realized how intrusive that lifestyle was going to be in our daily lives.
Too much stimuli makes for a life feeling like a body after a heavy meal. And all the health food you can stuff into your face won't remedy that unless a mental purge is engaged.
And so it goes.
So many folks are going backward. Less technology, more focus on less. Think on that one. We jumped en masse on the bandwagon with all that the Internet offered so many years ago, and later on (maybe) realized how intrusive that lifestyle was going to be in our daily lives.
Too much stimuli makes for a life feeling like a body after a heavy meal. And all the health food you can stuff into your face won't remedy that unless a mental purge is engaged.
And so it goes.
