“Internet Disconnection”
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
No internet access. I am too stingy to pay the $7.95 per day for further internet service.
Good! I’ll discover that I can live without checking my e mail and googling stuff every few minutes.
I am rereading Thoreau’s Walden. I have serious doubts that Thoreau would be on Face Book. If Henry David Thoreau were alive today, would he be on line? I doubt it. Would Thoreau blog?
Hummmm . . .
Still, here I am journaling on my computer. Is even that a good idea?
And, of course, my cell phone still works. I just called my twelve-step sponsor to report and speak my affirmation for the day.
The Delphic Oracle, according to Socrates (according to Plato) had an inscription that read, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Our modern slogan seems to be “The uncommunicated life is not worth living.” The word “uncommunicated” was not in my computer’s dictionary until I added it. However, the notion is most certainly in our unofficial collective psyche.
Perhaps my little experiment in living this disconnected life will help me to live out a more meaningfully connected life. Perhaps it will free me up to live out my affirmation today. “Today, by God’s grace, I will allow yesterday to be what it is: yesterday. I will live in the now, choosing to be loved by God, and choosing to love God, other people, and the whole world.”
Perhaps it is in solitude (or, at least, in thoughtful conversation with another or a few others) that we attain something worth sharing, worth communicating. Maybe, periodic and regular disconnection might help us to be more profoundly connected.
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