by Cassie Howard | Apr 15, 2017 | Blogging |
Yesterday I decided to take a day off of technology. No laptop. No TV. No phone. I don’t know why I decided to do it. I guess I thought I was “supposed to”. You know, you hear people talk about how important it is to take time away from technology. To be one with nature. To avoid talking to people online and instead talk to them face-to-face. And I always felt guilty that I never did any of these apparently much-needed “technolog-free days”. Like, am I failing at life or something? Am I making a huge mistake by being online and fully connected at ALL times Am I going to crash and burn and see my life crumble all around me? These are the questions I would ask myself. A lot. And I’d hear other people be all “OMG I’M TAKING A DAY OFF, THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!” and I’m like.. “maybe I should do that, I’m probably gonna die if I keep up like this, or at least that’s what people keep warning me about”. And so yesterday when I woke up with the head cold of all head colds, I was like “perfect! This is the universe telling me I should DEFINITELY take a day off!”. So I turned off my phone. I put my laptop in a place that was inconvenient for me to access. And I did the same with the keyboard for our TV (our TV is hooked up to a computer). And then.. I twiddled my fucking fingers all day long and wanted to die. Ok, so it wasn’t that extreme...
