Well worth the wait.
Do you think putting things on hold are well worth the wait? I struggle with this and yet we now can have what we want when we want it at our fingertips.

With everyone firmly entrenched in the digital age, it is an afterthought for our society to use computers, cell phones, texting to speed communications, manage repetitive tasks, and make short work of complex calculations. While the benefits of information technology have been widely documented, the irony of a “connected” environment is that it can disconnect us with other people.
A majority of decisions used to be made one on one and face to face based on gut feeling and experience. Now more often then not decisions are made via computers. The relationships between people has become one that is tied to our computers, cell phones, and texting.
There are many of you who have been asking the question, “Why do I feel so disconnected, so lost?”

Depersonalization, If depersonalization is a symptom of the age we now live in, the Sufferer feels they have changed, and the world has become less real, vague, dreamlike, or lacking in significance. It can be a disturbing experience, since many feel that, indeed, they are living in a “dream”. What is personal about a personal computer? Why do we text messages that sometimes have no meaning, content or reason? Because we feel alone. With all the many ways to stay in touch, we have lost touch. We have become slaves to a world with little social contact unless it involves meetings, tweet-ups, gatherings with strangers whom we try to impress as they try to impress us. All looking for a connection in an enviroment that has set us up for failure as we have no lasting connections to the persons on facebook, twitter, and all the other social media that is fast making it’s way into your life and involves buying, selling, dating and too many agendas to name here. But I think you get the point.

What I am saying is while I use all the tools known to modern man too, I have suddenly had an eye opener myself. Here it is Friday night and I am setting here pouring out what I am hearing from other people, (as well as what I am feeling) on my personal computer, to post on my Blog and tweet on Twitter, then link to Facebook, and than go check my e-mail, voice mail and text messages. Next week I have made a promise to myself, I will not tweet, check Facebook, text or spend any of my free time on this computer. For one whole week I will read, take a walk in the park, meet with a friend for dinner, see a movie, write a real letter I have to put a stamp on and see how it feels to connect again. Will let you know in one week how it goes, wish me luck.

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