Changing that came gradually, taking up a BRAND NEW method of living here, even if it’s just, for a day or two, translated…
This article was written down, stroke, by stroke, on the torn off pages of a daily calendar (And I’m too grateful, for owning something that’s slowly, become, extinct, and am very happy, that we got a new calendar for the house too). As I enjoyed the views on the pages of the various places of the world on the back, I’d flipped over to the other side, and, allowed my thoughts to take me, scribbled on, and at the very end, I’d forced myself to, type up my handwritten things into word files, then, pressing down the “Send” key.
not my picture…
Why so many steps? “Are you, from ages ago?”, my friend made fun.
Being born in the digital age, whether it be, making discoveries in the sea of knowledge, communications for work, socializing, the videos, songs, for the sakes of entertainment, everything IS reliant upon the computer. But, I seemed to be, seriously allergic to the electronic waves of the computer, as I’d only turned on my laptop or used my cell phone to talk, for a few minutes, my senses would sound off their alarms: my face, my temple started feeling tensions, my body became like an air-filled doll, starting to inflate, to the extremes of about to blow up. My body seemed to be calling out to me, “DANGER, OVERLOAD!”, then, followed by that volcanic eruption, or like how those dams let the waters flow out, and my body felt enormous pains.
I’d gotten used to “computer being the extensions of my arms” this mode of thought. Sometimes, I’d needed to, sit in front of my computer, through the keyboard, turned my thoughts into words, then, I was, able to, groom through every single strand of my thought thoroughly. And now, if I can’t, EVER use my laptop again, what will I do in the future?
I’d felt that slight sense of loss, and, let down, felt, that I’d become, totally, useless, “As I need to bid farewell to the electronic gadgets, what else, can I do? How do I make a life here, in the digital age?” If I switch tracks to agricultural planting of produces, it’s just, not my strong suit, besides, even in the agricultural field, working in the super convenience shops, it’s all reliant off of the modern day info-tech systems, how difficult it is, to eject the electronics from one’s life completely these days!
someone’s ADDICT here all right!!! Not my art…
Thankfully, there are still, pens and papers in this world. Using that childish handwriting skills, slowly, wrote out the hopes, the expectations of other people, transmitting my important messages, written by hand, in this, temporary break from the technology world. And, after I’d started living my simpler life, it’d seemed, that I’d, not interacted with people as much, but slowly, I’d drifted back to our original ways of relating to one another, face-to-face, seeing that gentle flow from one another’s eyes, and, the interactions I’d had become, more real to me.
Although, those who are computer users denied that the electric waves may damage one’s own health, there’s that lack of perpetrator, caught in the act, the immediate harms to the body, but, I’d felt, this real pain personally. But, because of it, saying goodbye temporarily to the electronic devices, I’d gotten the opportunities to read the papers, my books under the sun, worked on my potted plants, and, getting the reciprocated care and love from my plants in return, returned back to the slow-living styles before the digital age came around, I’d even started, waking at sunrise, and, resting at sundown. Thinking up to hear, I’d realized, that isn’t life supposed to be like this naturally?
As the brand new year approaches, my stuffed up digital mind needs its release. Other than giving blessings to other for the brand new year, don’t forget, to make your separate escapes, to give yourselves a chance, to embrace what’s real, and beautiful too.
“you are our SLAVE, man!!!” Not my sketch…
This is this woman’s experience of “unplugging” herself from ALL the electronic devices, and, we all need that every now and then in this current day and age, because we’d become, totally reliant on our internet connections, our contacts are all online, and everything we do IS online these days, and, because through the year, we’d gotten buried, so deep, in our work or whatever, we couldn’t take the time, to step back, and look at where our lives had been led, by the high-tech devices, and, even IF it’s just for a few short hours of unplugging from your gadgets, you’ll notice something different about yourselves after you’d unplugged!
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