Remember the days when the ancient landlines and snail mail were the only ways to get in contact with close friends and loved ones? What a great factoid to tell my son when he's 4 years old and knows more about technology than I will. =x
In this day and age, I confess that the reinvention of the cell phone, has allowed me the option to do pretty much everything and anything to keep in touch with society and to follow many things that really aren't important to me...rubbish that can sometimes get in the way of truly creating a fulfilling life. It was about a year ago, I was given the gift of the iphone from the hubby. Connection to the universe in the palm of my hands. Bad Idea.
I sometimes find myself taking for granted the precious time I could be spending doing some things far more important. If there were something that resembled AA for cell phone users, you'd probably find me there because my hubby would have signed me up already.
I found myself making excuses to my hubby telling him when he asks me to put the cell down ,"Hey, I keep my phone on vibrate when we go to church on Sundays, in the evening when I'm putting Darin to sleep, or when I'm at work. WHAT now?" =x
I'm the type of person who, when I realize things after a while are getting a bit too much, I try to make a change for the better.
It was about a month ago when I realized that I was making the cell phone rule my life and that that continuing to abuse my cell phone privileges is a very very naughty habit that needs to have limits...Something definitely needed to be done. The cell phone even at one point used to stress me out when I didn't receive replies back to my texts right away and even had me assuming that the other end was rude or probably was mad at me for something I said or did? Uh, physcho-me.
So, I've decided to declare *NO CELL PHONE SUNDAYS
Before you judge the little asterisk right next to my assertion, let me explain.
I've declared that because Sunday is our Family Fun Day, anyone that wants to get a hold of me can get a hold of me through my land line if I'm at home. If we are out of the house, which we usually are, there is no reason I need to respond to anything right away. And that also gives me no right to EVER assume that when someone doesn't respond to MY texts right away, that something is wrong. Apologies to my loving mother *cough.
Therefore on Sundays I will not be responding to texts, sending out texts, calling people, no social media, no googling, no yelping places. No taking pictures. No itunes. No blogging. *sigh*
*The only valid reason why I would need to use the cell phone is because we're meeting up with someone and we need to locate them...and if that were the case, we would be using the hubby's cell phone.
How about that for a start? Who knows, maybe this will eventually lead muah going back to using pagers. hee haw.
Nite nite - (sent from Liss's IPHONE) errr..=)
