My Stimulous Package



Posted: Friday, September 10, 2010

by Grace O'Malley

Do you ever feel like you are trying to play catch-up with your life? That sometimes it does not matter how hard you try, you just cannot seem to put it all together?



We have no one to blame but ourselves. We flit here, there and everywhere taking care of this, hoping to have fun doing that; working, playing, running a house, taking care of family. We run ourselves ragged until we collapse in bed and then get up the next day and start it all over again. Filling every minute doing something becomes imperative. Heaven forbid we take 5 minutes to relax. We may become *gasp* BORED.

I know, it is a scary thought is it not? Like the economy we want, or need, nay crave stimulation. No, this is not that kind of post. Though that may fill some of the requirements of keeping apathy at bay, I digress. What was I saying? Oh yes, stimulation: the instinctive snaps of synapse pulsating through our body, releasing all those yummy chemicals into our bloodstream. And we know how addictive those chemicals can be. After a while it is not enough and we need more, more, more!

Sometimes it is not necessarily the physical stimulants we hunger for. More and more it is becoming the mental stimulation we desire. Fulfilling that kind of stimulation should be a simple thing, no? After all with the millions of books that have been written and the quadrillions of words used to create them, there is a never ending pool of resources at our disposal.

That kind of stimulation takes work though. I mean you have to actually go to the bookstore or *heart skips a beat* a library. You look at titles/blurbs to see if it is something you might be interested in. Then you have to purchase/check out the book, lug it home, open it up and read. That is a lot of work for something we may not like and usually does not even have any pictures to go with it. There is a solution to this dilemma though.

The Internet!

There, with the click of a button, you can be entertained, be informed or be enthralled. Stimulation is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. No need to rush any longer. We can pull up a chair, grab our coffee and peruse at our own pace. It isn't going anywhere. Granted, we may end up looking like a monkey discovering a stick while we hunch over our keyboards and stare with blinding fascination at our monitors, but so what? Boredom ceases to exist.

Thank you all who contributed in making this electronic marvel available to us. You have changed life as we knew it. However, I hope you will forgive me if I now and then pick up a book instead. There is something to be said about the feel, smell and sounds of a book in my hand.

Mea culpa.
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» left by Jennifer Stewart
 1 year 229 days ago.
151 fans.
I love the photo! I'm really enjoying the internet, but it can make feel very dissociated from down-to-earth ordinary life. These days I'm feeling like there's too much brain stuff happening, not enough physical. And I love my books.
 
p.s. I had bacon and chocolate for supper. And now I feel sick!
» left by Grace O'Malley 1 year 226 days ago.
42 fans.
Thank you, I liked that photo too. Sorry the bacon and chocolate didn't settle well. Are you better?
 
Grace
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