Through a series of unfortunate events, I find myself without access to the internet for the weekend (of course this won’t be posted until I have the internet back, but ‘oh well’). It feels so strange. I feel somewhat lost. I can’t check my emails, surf Facebook, check the weather, read my RSS feeds. I was watching a cartoon movie with the kids and one of the character’s voices sounded familiar. I thought to myself, “I’ll go look up the actor on IMDB” but then I remembered I couldn’t. I feel so totally disconnected from the outside world. What’s going on out there?! (incidentally, we don’t have cable or satellite, we don’t even have ‘peasant vision’, so the internet is our main source of information)
It’s disconcerting to realize my dependency on “the net”. What on earth did we do before this existed? And how do people function who don’t have access to this wonderful invention. The entire world of information is at my fingertips, at any moment of the day. I feel like I’m on a fast (and I have hunger pangs). It’s ok for this weekend but I know I would not be able to handle an extended period of time without my internet access.
Even though I don’t have the internet for the weekend, it’s not completely a bad thing. I’ve done other things, like read a book that I had started a while ago, and spent more time with my kids. It’s been a good reminder of how much time I spend on the net. It wouldn’t hurt me to cut it down a little, or at least just spend time surfing once or twice a day instead of whenever I have a spare moment.