Thought for today...If couples who are in love are called 'love birds', then couples who always argue should be called 'angry birds.' :)
(This is for Max and Ryan.)
Today, my internet went down and I forgot the rest of my computer still worked. Where was my head. Probably more wishful thinking than anything. Go figure. And on my way to work today, I was thinking, what did people (I) ever do in the car without cellphones!! I am having a love/hate relationship with electronic devices today. I woke up and had to immediately check my email on my smartphone. As I got ready for work I periodically checked my email again. I got into the car and at the first red light, I looked at my text messages. I refrained from looking again while on the freeway although I have to admit, if I heard that little chime, I would have been tempted to look and see who wanted my attention at that very moment.
Sometimes I think I have to talk to someone on the phone just because I am in the car!! Now that is alarming. I am on the computer from the moment I get to work until the second I get up to leave and I have my smartphone at the ready to receive calls, pages, and texts while I am frantically emailing, producing Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and intranet training material while using Google, Adobe and a miriad of other computer software. And the weird thing is, after I leave my desk, when I get into the car to go home, I check my phone to see if I have missed any email or texts! This is bizarre. I have been away from my desk and computer for all of 5 minutes.
So, as I am driving home tonight, I am making an effort to try to have a little non-technical time. Everything seems to be going smoothly. I have put my phone in my purse and I can't see it. I have turned on the radio and one of my favorite songs is playing. Maybe this will be the night - the night I can make it home without technical interruptions. The radio sounds great. But then I catch myself looking at my purse...What the....why am I looking? There have been no chimes, no rings. I AM ADDICTED! Maybe by admitting it to my blog, I can start admitting it to myself. I love/hate my electronic devices. They are good/evil.
Tomorrow it will start again, I know it will. But tomorrow maybe I can put my phone in my purse a little earlier and turn the radio up a little louder. Maybe I could wait to check my email until I actually got to work. It's worth a try. I really want to be smarter than my smartphone and enjoy a moment to watch the sunrise or pay more attention to the traffic. :)
6 comments:
This is so true. I love that you are trying... and I love that you are addicted. Hooray for electronics, but not hooray to what they do do us! :)
I miss you writing on your blog!! I loved reading this and wondered why a blog that exists in my head appeared on yours. I could have written this about myself as well. Hooray for you writing.
You beautifully said what so many of us feel about this amazing FAST pace of constant technological change. I heard a report yesterday that said society is having a difficult time keeping up......it's challenging, indeed! I agree it's VERY hard to keep from checking for the next message.....!!!!
I'm still struggling with the whole electronic business. I really HATE texting - I'm sure that all of those texts that are coming in all around me are people talking about me...I hate that my conversations with people sitting right next to me are interrupted by a text message - is that person or message so much more important than I am - the person sitting right there looking at you? Okay -I sound a little crazy - but there are things that I miss about the good old days of speaking face to face and picking up a phone to call someone...sigh
Love that you wrote this!
So glad that you are blogging...:)
Cathy would hate to hang out with us 4 kids and mom. We not only text while we are sitting with someone, but talk on the phone and email as well!! What can we say, we are addicted.
At least you are not as bad as one of my clients... I got an email today that said - "I just got these documents, but I am in the shower, so I will review later" Ha ha - I don't think I will EVER check my email when I am in the shower!!
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