A Computer free day!

I woke this morning thinking, today should be a computer free day, after I write my blog that is! It seems the sedentary hours that surfing and e-mailing and Facebooking demands are takling their toll. My mind is scolding me like a nagging mother saying, "It's a beautiful day, you should be outside playing!"


A friend's comment comes to my mind, "I'm less lonely since I got my computer!" Is that what we are all doing, feeling less lonely whiling away our evenings on the internet? I'm sure that is the case for many. This world wide web we are weaving allows us to connect in ways we never could before. As I write this blog to cyberspace, I think of when I wrote my first diary at the age of 12, entering boarding school. I think that helped me feel less lonely.


If its all Spirit then whether we are journaling our thoughts to ourselves or Skyping family in another country, reading news articles or shopping for sandals to match a new outfit. It's all part of the times we are living in, we cope with so much more information on a daily basis than ever before in history. Did you know someone living in the early 1800's was exposed to less information in her lifetime as is published in the New York times in one week! pretty astounding! (See Shift Happens for more trivia like this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q&feature=related )


Does all this information serve to make us more connected and satisfied? Maybe and maybe not. What I do know is, we still get to exercise our power of choice; to choose a computer free day! To choose to connect in person, to get off our butts and move our bodies up the side of a mountain, smelling the vegetation and feeling the dirt under our feet. Which is where I am heading next. I love the internet, I love the possibilities it opens up but I must have balance. I hope your day is balanced too.





Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.- Robert Fulghum