This weekend I went camping, and it made me realize something I had been thinking about in the back of my mind for a while. When I go out during the weekends, when I stop paying attention to facebook and my email. I'm happier. I am much, much happier. The simple act of turning off the screen and going out and interacting with real people in the real world makes all difference in the world then if I were to have the same exact conversations with the same people at the same time over the internet. Yet when I'm home during the week I find it nearly impossible to get off facebook, to not check my email every five minutes... why is this? I know what's going to happen, the same thing that happens every day. Yet I can't help myself, why? I don't know exactly and I'm certain no one knows the answers for certain I happened upon a TED talk that I found most inspiring. I think from now on I will be spending more time unplugging from my technology and spending more time plugging into the real world, the world I can't control, where I don't know what is going to happen everyday and where there is room for excitement.
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