Kinda Blah

I don't know that anyone ever reads these blogs, but should anyone read this particular one, I apologize now. This is going to ramble and not be very coherent.

Technology is amazing. It puts the world in our pocket, it saves us time, it makes life easier. It runs our lives. Think about it. 5 billion of the earth's 6 and a half billion people own cell phones. The cars we drive have computer chips in them, without which the cars cannot operate. Computers hold the records for businesses, schools, churches and governments. The majority of homes in the US have at least one television, and many have more than one. The movie industry (a multi billion dollar shebang) uses fancy schmancy equipment to film and edit the movies they make. The very fact that you are reading this means you own or have access to a computer of some sort. Technology is everywhere.

I love technology. I personally own an iPhone, iPod touch, Dell Inspiron, Mac Mini, TV, blue ray player, and a host of other gadgets too large to name here. I have internet access on my phone and both computers, and I am online every day, most of the day. I text my friends all day every day. I listen to music in my car and on my computer all the time. I watch tv/movies pretty much every day. My life is steeped in technology, and I love it.

But every now and then I just look at my life and say, "What the hell am I actually doing?" There is nothing tangible to show for all the time I spend immersed in techy stuff. It doesn't *really* strengthen my friendships or relationships; in fact, it makes a lot of them weaker. When I see all this stuff, it makes me want go live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, with no electricity or anything super modern. Sometimes I just want to turn everything off and either listen to the quiet or actually DO something. Something like spend time with my friends or make something.

I don't really have an ending to this, because there was never any direction to it. This was my vent, and since I have now run out of things to say, I shall stop writing. Maybe one day I'll find the happy balance between technology and real life.