Technology, technology, technology!!! Fifty years ago life was so much less complicated! You picked up one phone in the house when it rang instead of screening your calls. People actually talked to each other from home........safe and sound..........no hustle and bustle except dinner time, homework and families together. Now, we deal with people talking and/or texting while they are driving and putting us all at risk! No one can seem to put their phones down for fear of "missing" a call or text!
Phones and computers, computers and phones.........ugh!!!
In this crazy world of technology, I now have two iPhones - one for work and one for personal use, thus, two voicemail accounts to check, two email accounts, Facebook, LinkedIn, Career Builder alerts, Indeed.com alerts, spam out the ying yang and distractions that are beyond imagination fifty years ago....Indeed!!!
Do you remember when we used to push a button to turn the TV on? Now, we have to have multiple remote controls just to turn the blasted thing on! What craziness we have created with technology.
Yes, are microwaves easier to use to "nuke" something quick to eat? Sure, but are we putting ourselves at risk for some disease like cancer or some other danger that we don't even know about yet by using it? Who knows? We don't yet!
Is it easier to "eat out" than cook a home meal for our family or ourselves? Sure, but how much weight can one person and one society gain by doing so?
And, what are we missing by sharing the food around the table together, passing it to one another and saying "please and thank you" to those we love? When was the last time you sat down for a meal at home with your family??? Oh, that's right - that was Leave It to Beaver in the 1960's.
What??? Give us sports for the kids? Going to the gym after work? Bible Study at church? Carpool for the ballet class? No way! We NEED all this stress, don't we? It is uncanny what we have done to ourselves over time. No limits, no boundaries, no sense.
What technology measures the amount of stress all these "conveniences" have given us? Can we UNplug and go relax somewhere quiet without our cell phone ringing or dinging to let us know someone sent us an voicemail, email or text? Well actually, yes, we can!!!
We do not have to feed into all the technology and be on top of every email, every voicemail, every text, every activity or join every social media tool to help us get a job, get the news, get caught up!
We absolutely do NOT have to buy into the technology crazy at every angle of our lives.
We CAN stop, breathe and think! We CAN go outside and sit on our deck or back porch without our phones and without our computers. We CAN fix a meal at home and share it with our family, a neighbor or some friends! We CAN go for a bicycle ride or walk in the park! We CAN slow down and imagine doing less!!!
But, will we???
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