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Gimmie My Hand Back!

Monday, January 11, 2021 (Part I)

Technology provides wonderful opportunities to stay connected with each other, share pictures of distant loved ones, and share ideas (like the best ways to create a flawless latticed pie top...#pinterest-4-lyfe).  However, the price we pay by allowing this technology into our lives (usually through our phones), is that we can now access the "thoughts of the world" in a moment.  

The "thoughts of the world" are generally reflected in a warped and disingenuous way, through our "news".   

The quote in today's post resonated with me, and seems to be particularly appropriate for today's world (though is always appropriate....no matter what age we live in whether it's 2021....1921......or 1951).  Don't expect the "news" to portray our world in a peaceful, cohesive, or otherwise collaborative light.....where's the entertainment in that?....that wouldn't keep us consuming, would it?  Yes, there is discord in the world, but there always has been, and there always will be.  

What's important?  Are a bunch of quibbling children, whose very job heavily implies that they must continually quibble with each other to maintain our attention important to you?  I can't think of anything that interests me less.  However, my phone takes my hand every morning, and says, "HEY HEY HEY.....LOOK OVER HERE!!!.....SOOOPER IMPORTANT STUFF TO WORRY ABOUT OVER HERE!!! HEY HEY HEY!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE XXX POLITICIAN SAID THIS TO XXX POLITICIAN?!!?!? GLAD WE'RE NOT LIKE THAT....RIGHT?!?!?!......PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!"....

"No", one must say to one's phone......."give me my hand back".

What is important, are the living, breathing human beings in your life......your family, your friends, your colleagues, and of course....yourself.






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