[As I am typing this I am listening to Yiruma and Jeff Bjorck, for those of you that know him.. it might explain the mood of this post. The weather certainly does not contribute any sort of natural sas or spunk I may have had in previous posts.]
I have a cell phone. I have a wallet. Got a new debit card but I am waiting for more indispensable cards to come in the mail. Beans, snail mail has never felt quite this, well, snail-ish. I have somehow done all my Christmas shopping and wrapping via Amazon Prime but have not gotten a California's Driver's license yet. Funny huh?
I learned a lot by not having a cell phone but to preface I cheated. I used Google voice to text and used my mom cell's phone quite a bit, so I did not ever go completely Amish and looking back I wish I had the right amount of balls to try such a venture in 2010 or whatever. I am a little shocked at how easy it was to revert back to the dependency of the mobile device and plastic for money but perhaps one week is not enough time to break a habit. It doesn't help that I did not have a clear goal in mind. Alas, all these lessons learned.
There's only one lesson or revelation I would like to share with the world that I found pretty interesting.
I believe all this technology just leads to us being more in control, almost like we are trying to level the playing field with God. I know that's a pretty extreme statement. But, I'm going to leave it at that. Partially because it's too cold to type but also because it's a highly controversial statement. But think about the direction of things we are trying to improve: "real time", "world at your fingertips", "stay connected" and etc. With cell phones, internet and computers, we are able to "do" instead of giving room to "hope" or "trust" that things will work out.
Perhaps I will extrapolate more tomorrow when I'm in a heated room, but that is all I am leaving the world with tonight.
