taking time

I guess I've been thinking about this for a while, but *this* article really confirmed it.

My computer broke down for a bit and to be honest I wasn't too disappointed.

I had plans to get a typewriter and I even drove an hour away to see one

(that had already been purchased, sadly), but all in all it was actually quite

 liberating not having my laptop around me all the time.

I used the family computer, but without all my *favorited websites and

 pictures to fiddle around with I didn't linger as much as I usually do.

So, now that I have my laptop back I'm....well I don't quite know.

I'm glad (because the screen is much bigger), but also I realize how much time I spend with it.

The addition of Pinterest to my life has  made everything different as well.

I notice it with myself and with others, that we feel like we have to be constantly entertained.

Whether it's our phones with internet, or checking updates from people it just seems over-kill after a while.

I don't feel like I have to go to the extreme of completely removing myself from this technology-filled world,

but I do feel like I have to be constantly aware of my time.

It's one of those things that you don't usually think about until it's gone...

until you've spent an hour or two on the internet and realize that you really didn't do anything.

It's such a hard balance, keeping up with what's going on and trends in whatever circles you follow,

and then just living as well.

If we don't put in the effort to make sure we're present in each moment, then we'll regret it;

we'll regret decisions we made and then at some point it will become a life of regret.

Hopefully not to this point:

"I would prefer to be able to say: 'I am satiated, 
what is given to taste in this life, I have tasted.'
But I am like someone in a window who draws aside a curtain
To look at a feast he does not comprehend."

Czeslaw Milosv (A New Province)