Arugh! How do I slow down the events around me so I can do what I want to do? I swear the planet spins a little faster every day since I was born. I remember when a summer day would last forever. Today a week is much faster than any one of those childhood play days. <sigh>
I know it is only a perception, but perception is reality. I have always held that communication is a serious problem. For a long time (and because of business) I thought there was not enough communication.
However, the frustration I feel in the opening paragraph is most likely because there is far too much communication. Every moment must be filled and supercharged with activity and so called multi tasking while constantly being in competition with others doing the same. You snooze, you lose mentality. Every moment in our lives must be scheduled and communicated. <phew!>
What has happened to letter writing? “What’s that?” I hear from someone in the back.
It used to be the way we communicated with friends, say about 100 years ago. “How you doing Mary? / Just fine Dan” used to take about two to three weeks by US Postal. Now it is “tweeted” in about 250 milliseconds.
So now we have to move on to the next “interactive communication” step.
With the written letter, you could lie down and take a rest, or go out and plow the back forty. Heck, the answer was three weeks away.
Today, I go into my work shop and turn off the communication so I can get something done for four hours. When I come back to the “real” world, there are 32 emails, 6 text messages and four voice mails waiting. Every one of them wants to know what’s wrong? I couldn’t reach you (immediately) all day! (Really ½ a day) Where were you? Is your cell phone broken? Forgot to charge it, un-huh? Geeze, don’t disappear and scare us that way!
There seems to be something wrong in that picture. Stop the world I want to get off… 🙂