Healthy Indoors 49
h my GOSH - I'm so busy!
We've all said it before, haven't
we? And while yep, it's true
we really are pretty busy these
days, after all, I myself am a
mom with two kids, pets, a house to take
care of and my own small business to jug-
gle; I started to ponder that title statement
a little deeper lately and question whether:
a. it's true b. we've just become a totally
self-absorbed society or c. our priorities
are just all f%&ked up. (Of course, it could
indeed be a combination of all of the above
- and probably is...) But me being me, I
wanted to delve in a little deeper.
So how is it that we have all this crazy
technology that's supposed to make our
lives easier, yet we seem to be "busier"
than ever - which I believe is drawing us
further and further away from any real
sense of community, and along with it, ac-
countability.
I keep joking around about wanting to get
a land line phone with an old-fashioned an-
swering machine and limiting my "online"
computer time to no more than two hours a
day. I'm secretly not joking.
I want to listen to records instead of an
iPod, read books instead of a Kindle, and
buy 95% of what I need within 1 square
mile of my house. I want to talk instead
of text - preferably face to face, not care if
someone I haven't seen in 15 years re-
moves me as their Facebook "friend," and
have people really show up when they say
on an "evite" that they're going to. I want
people online to only "say" things they'd
be willing to publicly say out loud in per-
son, instead of hiding behind their World
of Warcraft warlock alias, and basically
just be fricking decent human beings for a
change.
Do you realize the average American
spends anywhere from forty minutes to
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