A comment posted jokingly on a friends Facebook wall references "technotheism." This same conversation referred to playing Scrabble on an iPhone as a substitute for a real life, person to person game. They are not the same. In the game of technology versus real life, real life seems to lose more often than not.
I am making a series of conscious decisions to overrule technology in my own life. While I would love to give up the TV, we all know that's not happening until LOST is over. Facebook continues to dominate my existence. The computer is always a go-to source of entertainment and a frequent boredom killer. But you know what? I find both of those fact increasingly less fulfilling and true. I crave the outdoors more than email and Facbook, and boredom at work (or at any other time!) can rarely be satiated by the intarweb these days.
It bores me. (It also gives me carpal tunnel.)
I crave simplicity, the out of doors, sewing, playing games with friends, movies in the park, picnics, baking, riding my bicycle, sunrises and sunsets, enjoying the time I have left with my dog, watching the cat scream at her archnemesis, being still and un-surrounded by modern "conveniences."
I'm going to try and go computer-less this weekend. And text-less, even. I'm on a journey to embrace and simplify real life.
But obviously my progress will be hindered until after May 23rd, because the 18th and the 23rd will find me firmly rooted in front of the television with pina colada in hand, gasping and groaning my way through LOST's final hours. And then I shall go on the intarwebz to read what other people have to say about LOST.
But after that? The world is my oyster. I kicked the FarmTown habit - can I kick the Facebook in the face?
PS - It's still Zombie Awareness Month!! What will you do to raise zombie awareness this weekend?! Answer! Drink lots of wine and give me the bottles. :)
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3 comments:
I love this - I may actually join you when you do it! I've been thinking about it and taking the plunge!
Whatever you're doing IS your REAL life, whether you're in the yard gardening or using the internet. I mean, if communicating via the internet doesn't count as "real," my entire marriage started off with...fakeness? Which it didn't. ;)
It's not the SAME as face-to-face contact, of course, and it can never replace that, but it is real. Separating things into "real life" and "technology" just doesn't make any sense to me. You only get one life, your real life. Which makes it all that much more important to decide how you really want to spend it, I think.
That said, I'm with ya on the rest of it. I've barely used Facebook all week...too much other stuff to do. Computers should assist us in making our lives better, not take over our lives entirely. Now that I don't HAVE to sit in front of one for work, I'm loving the freedom from it.
Thanks for the perspective, Kati. I rarely think things all the way and you've provided more food for thought.
*insert ridiculous comment about a fake marriage and soap operas here* ;)
Totally failed in the texting department. It's my main communication with Jo, so... yeah. I texted. I did NOT Facebook, though! Did do Etsy last night and checked email once.
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