For the past month, I didn’t have internet connection at home. What to do in this day and age when you have no internet connection at all! It’s such a weird thing when you don’t have internet at home because that’s the main source of entertainment for most people these days. We all go and hide in our rooms chatting away on the net, buying stuff off Ebay from the net, reading blogs on the net, researching information for assignments on the net... our lives are so consumed by the internet!
But as I didn’t have the internet for over a month, I had to find other means of entertaining myself. I ended up watching a lot of TV because that was the second best thing. I realised that Tuesday is the only day with good TV shows - and Sunday too. But without then net, I found that I had more time to myself to really read a lot. I spent a lot of time reading the bible when I would have otherwise been on the net, I spent time with friends when I would have otherwise been on the net, I spent time cleaning my room when I would have otherwise been on the net, I spent time exercising when I would have otherwise been on the net, I spent time cleaning my car and the house when I would have otherwise been on the net...Without the net, I found I had A LOT of time.
Over lives are so consumed by the internet that I think most people would find it difficult to survive without the internet. One day without the internet feels like a looooong time – and there is this compulsion to check emails, to check blogs, to check this and that. We would feel so unconnected to the world if we didn’t have the internet right? The world is basically at our finger tips with the internet. But we should realise that getting back to reality is also important.
So we should get out and smell the fresh air instead being stuck in our stale aired rooms sitting behind out laptops and computers and typing away on the net.
So after this one month hiatus without the internet, I’ve decided that I’m going to spend limited amounts of time on the internet at home. I literally spend my day at work in front of the computer, and to come back home and strain my back and neck with more computer usage is just plain silly. Recently, Ps Mark Pomery (House-look-alike) talked about switching off ALL gadgets from 6pm – 10pm? I think that’s a bit much... but maybe between 6-8pm would be ok to turn off all mobile phones, to turn off the internet, to turn off the TV and radio and just take some time out and talk with people in your house hold, read a book, go meet a friend, go to the gym – anything but being attached to the gadgets that have become so much a part of our lives. Once we have less reliance of these gadgets – we turn to people who we will learn to rely on more. If you think about it, what’s more important – these gadgets that help us to keep in touch with friends and family or the real bond and fellowship we can experience by being with friends and family and interacting with them.
And here's a youtube for laughs. Most of you have probably already seen this... I saw this on Rove last night and it just made me crack!