My handwriting grows poorer as my ability to text message on my cell phone improves….
I have more photos stored onto my hard drive than I have printed in the last few years, and the quality of the ones I can view on my computer is far greater than the ones in the shoeboxes from years gone by….
I can research a subject in one tenth the time without waiting for a library to open….
Handwritten love letters are rare these days, yet some e-mails are so achingly beautiful it seems a shame they are rarely saved…..
We can talk to each other daily no matter how many thousands of miles apart we may be, and not lay eyes on one another for years….
Through MySpace and AIM I know what my nieces and nephew are doing daily without ever calling them….
And it is rare that a day goes by without being “on-line”.
And yet, I miss being excited for the mailman to arrive…..
I long for handwritten letters with ink smudges….
Waiting for photos to come back to see if you “got” the right moment….
And telephone calls without hearing, “wait a minute, I have a beep-“.
Card catalogs, watching television with only four channels, scratchy records, and listening to a song over and over again to write the lyrics down.
Back when no one heard of “multi-tasking.”
It seems that the more conveniences we have, the less time we have to enjoy life.
Just for today,
let’s
slow
down.
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