So my goal these days is to decrease my cyber footprint. How's that sound, Mr. Gore? That is now a thing. I want to decrease the amount of life I live online and increase the amount I experience through my senses and with the people in front of me. Especially that. The ads say that nothing connects us like the internet, but that's a lie. Nothing isolates us like the internet. Yes, used properly it can be beneficial, like morphine. But like many highly addictive drugs, it's very hard to use it properly. And not enough people are approaching it like a highly addictive drug.
I have freed myself from Facebook, and I've now decreased the number of Lexulous games I play from 40 to 15. May take it down to ten, just retaining the few friends I have made playing it.
I want my phone to no longer be the thing that promises me relief from boredom and loneliness. That's it in a nutshell.
So I ask myself, in a slight panic, what is there?? What do I go to early in the morning, for amusement and quiet thought, and things to think about? ........ And I remember my mother when I was very small. Remember getting up early, because that's what little children do, and looking for my mother, until I found her out on the back step in the hushed and dewy back yard full of fruit trees, with her cup of coffee and her pen and notepad. I was allowed to stay with her as long as I didn't budge or make a sound.
And I remember myself before the internet. I too started my days alone in the dark of early morning. With five kids in the house, the only time you're guaranteed quiet is in the "empty, silent, dewy, cobwebby hours", as C.S. Lewis put it. With my coffee, pen, and notepad.
To that I shall return.
I see, of course, the hypocrisy of posting on my blog the evils of the internet. And yes, I will keep my blog, whether anyone reads it or not. I have things to say, and this is a place to share what I come up with. But not the only place. I will expand my learning and sharing further in the real world. To my poetry circle, I will add public readings and acting classes and classes on writing, and practice drawing. I will share here what I come up with there. And in my notebook early in the morning.
Greetings and love to all my readers! Love from Texas to Canada, Portugal, France, England, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, and all other parts. I'm delighted that you find the things I post interesting. And while not many comment here, if anyone's interested in conversation (one-on-one, not FB style) my email address is mariahkruz@gmail.com. Let's live outside the Box, and come into it only to share our observations.
I have freed myself from Facebook, and I've now decreased the number of Lexulous games I play from 40 to 15. May take it down to ten, just retaining the few friends I have made playing it.
I want my phone to no longer be the thing that promises me relief from boredom and loneliness. That's it in a nutshell.
So I ask myself, in a slight panic, what is there?? What do I go to early in the morning, for amusement and quiet thought, and things to think about? ........ And I remember my mother when I was very small. Remember getting up early, because that's what little children do, and looking for my mother, until I found her out on the back step in the hushed and dewy back yard full of fruit trees, with her cup of coffee and her pen and notepad. I was allowed to stay with her as long as I didn't budge or make a sound.
And I remember myself before the internet. I too started my days alone in the dark of early morning. With five kids in the house, the only time you're guaranteed quiet is in the "empty, silent, dewy, cobwebby hours", as C.S. Lewis put it. With my coffee, pen, and notepad.
To that I shall return.
I see, of course, the hypocrisy of posting on my blog the evils of the internet. And yes, I will keep my blog, whether anyone reads it or not. I have things to say, and this is a place to share what I come up with. But not the only place. I will expand my learning and sharing further in the real world. To my poetry circle, I will add public readings and acting classes and classes on writing, and practice drawing. I will share here what I come up with there. And in my notebook early in the morning.
Greetings and love to all my readers! Love from Texas to Canada, Portugal, France, England, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, and all other parts. I'm delighted that you find the things I post interesting. And while not many comment here, if anyone's interested in conversation (one-on-one, not FB style) my email address is mariahkruz@gmail.com. Let's live outside the Box, and come into it only to share our observations.
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