guitarboy2828 wrote
dee wrote
No worries. I now expect instant replies from you.
Aaah, the joys of the BB, waking up in the middle of the night/sunday/public holiday and seeing you have work emails. Joy.
Yeah, that's why I'm considering selling this lil gadget, work never stops this way! ☹ haha..
But you don't HAVE to have all those features enabled. The idea is that the technology must serve you.
We need to learn from the Amish. The Amish are not technophobic as such, they are just very concerned with the price you pay for technology. Apparently most of their villages actually do have telephones, but they don't like having them in the house. Because when you've spent a whole day working with wood or bricks or in the field, and your kids have been at school, and now you want to sit down and spend some quality time why should you have this box that rings and demands your attention?
I don't go that far, but I do like to draw lines. I don't have my cell phone next to my bed when I go to sleep. The wife says "nobody can get hold of you." I say "exactly". If I had teenage kids who were out and about in cars I might want to be more contactable. But I don't and so I don't. And besides when I was a teenager we managed to get around, get into trouble, get out of it again and sneak in at 2 AM and nobobdy was any the wiser or needed to be.
My brother does not have a cell phone and will not answer his land line if there's a soccer match involving Chelsea on the TV.
Life is getting crazy. We need to compartmentalise more. I have people come around to my house for a braai, and some of them will do nothing other than talk on the cell phone and attend to SMSes (all of which are "urgent"). That kind of makes going to a braai a bit pointless. They're very connected and 21st century, but the variety is disappearing out of their lives.
