chicagodads

Sucks.

It’s like 72 degrees (Fahrenheit) outside but in here, with the air conditioning on, I’m constantly sweating.

We invented light bulbs so we could work even when it’s dark. And now we can’t sleep. Certainly I’m not the only one.

We make machines that think faster than us but operate according to our whims and then we connect them together so that people anywhere and everywhere can build communities in unbelievable break-neck time. But then we spend half our time widdling our days away on videos, niche pop-culture junk, and anonymous hate-filled blog comments. And even when someone does take the effort to begin reaching out, it seems that there just isn’t enough time to reach out in kind.

The scary part is that I’m a firm believer in the notion that 1) how we start something - unless severely corrected - is how we will continue and end, only much more boldly as it progresses; and 2) children learn primarily from their parents. And though it’s not necessarily negative, it can be and often is.

All of this is not to grub about modern society or technology. It’s not their fault that I have trouble concentrating at times. I, like all of us, need to learn my boundaries - what I can and what I cannot live without.

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