Hanging out with my good friend Marie is always a ton of fun. But along with the fun, many times we find ourselves deep in conversation about very serious topics. Frequent topics include the demise of the world due to facebook, the yearning for a simpler life, stereotypes, and a plethora of other things effecting the world right now and how saddened we are by them.
I feel that the mark of a good conversation/debate is if you get something out of it. When a person is talking about deep issues such as these, there should be a little bit of introspection with it. How does this apply to me? How can I change? How do I feel about this?
Hopefully this is making sense, and if not hopefully I'll clear it up in this paragraph. Today we were talking about facebook, a semi-frequent pondering, and how we both wish we could either: 1, lessen our time on there, or 2, drop facebook completely. It is clear that facebook has become a sort of addiction for both of us, though we are by no means the worst at fault for this. I know for certain that there are many, many, many people in the world who are on it more than we are. But the reason we feel it has an 'addiction' sort of status is because of all the time wasted on there. Here's the scenario: I log on, just to check if any numbers are at the top of my page basically.
I only intend to be on there for a harmless minute, right? So I check. And then, I click on someone. One minute has turned into 5, then 15, then 30. And before you know it, it's 2:00 in the afternoon! What happened to all that time? I compare this facebook addiction, in a way, to drinking. A person wants JUST ONE drink. Then that turns into two. Then three. Then four. And before you know it, they are drunk. Same with facebook. You intend to only be there for a minute; you just want that one little sip, that one drink of information on everyone. And before you know it, an hour has gone by.
So, here comes the introspection part! Stay with me here...
I myself feel I have not been reading as much as I used to, and this really saddens me. I love to read. I love getting lost in a good book. But I have not been doing this a whole lot lately and I realized why: my laptop. Ever since I got my laptop back up and running with Ubuntu, I have been using it a lot more. Typically in the past, I would read while I was doing my vest. With two vest sessions a day, that would equal an hour of reading every day, which is pretty darn good for most people. But now, I keep my laptop by my vest, too, and more times than not I will pick up the laptop, play a game, or check all my anti-social network stuff and before I know it, I am on my last vest setting with 2 minutes left. I can't read now! There's no more time, I think to myself. Once again, time has passed and another opportunity for me to spend some good family time with my books is lost.
So, even though writing this blog is taking some time, haha, I intend to read tonight while I vest. I am so glad we had this conversation because it made me more aware as to WHY I am not reading as much. Hopefully I can turn things around and my books will be back in my hands more!
Ugh. So true. I "never" have enough time to read. Instead I fill my time by Facebooking or stumbling or just generally perusing the internet. I tried to start to read for a 1/2 hour before bed, b/c when I am on the computer until bedtime I have a hard time falling asleep. That worked well for ooh... a week... and now im back to the computer all the time. Perhaps I need to get back to reading before bed. We shall have to talk about Facebook being the end of the world at some point... :)
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