techno-head

I am a slave to technology.

It saddens me that I rely on it so much. I don't wear a watch, because I typically always have my cell phone with me. I don't call friends as often, because it is easier to send them a facebook message or tweet them. I don't even have to do simple math in my head because my cell phone has a calculator and even a tip calculator. Convenient? Yes...

But technology almost makes things too easy. I really don't have to think much anymore and we all know that if you don't use your mind, your brain cells will decrease. Dang.

Maybe because a lot of things are so easy and accessible, it makes the other things that are not so easy harder to deal with. I mean sure I like a challenge sometimes, but often times I wish things, like other life things, were easier. Nobody every said life was easy, but I want to know who said it had to be so hard sometimes.

I could counter-argue and say that technology has made life easier in most aspects, which is true, but I think it has led some of us to think there should be an easy quick fix for everything. We all want that ever elusive easy button that would make things as easy as pie. (Is 'as easy as pie' even a saying? If it is, it's a silly one because pies are in fact not so easy to make...)

There is one part of current technology that I have not succumb to (yet): a GPS. I have always just looked up directions online and wrote or printed them out. They have always been fairly accurate for me, so I've stuck with it. Not that I have never been enticed by the thoughts of a GPS...because I have been. Even more so lately since this past weekend I got slightly lost in Fargo and thought that Google Maps had failed me, but really the only thing failing me was my ability to comprehend the directions. But no biggie, I just set myself back a bit on time and it wasn't so terrible of an experience that I can justify the purchase of a GPS.

Besides, I just realized that my cell phone has a navigation system on it that you can sign up for. Great success!


Abrazos y besos.