Saturday, September 04, 2004

Com Addictive

After yet another period of inactivity, i am back again. Oh joy. Anyway, point of interest today: Electronic Addiction. You know how peopl, especially those of the older generation, have always complained that young people nowadays are discarding the old, and more fulfilling ways of entertainment? How we now prefer PS and Computer games to walking in the park, or say do some gardening? Well, I've found out that the part about it being fulfilling is quite true.


Actually, i found this out when my computer's internet access got conked off(again). Well, when i said 'electronic addiction' in the beginning, i DO mean addiction. The first day i was cut off, i was listless, in a bad mood. I wandered around staring at my book shelf(actually the book level of my shelf), trying to convinve myself to read the already-read books. It didn't work. I wanted something NEW and EXCITING. Something in the NET. I found myself wondering how on earth did the ancients survive without internet access. Then i sat down to try to think of something to do when bored. And one thing invariably will come to mind. Go On-Line. Wash face, shake head, take a deep breath, sit down, try to think again. So bored...what to do? Again it came to me. Go On-Line. And so it went on.


On the second day, i noticed a book out of the other 10 books that i would like to read again. Later in the day, i went down, and noticed the piano sitting there, waiting for me. Why not? Sat down to play.


On the third day, i woke up, looked at the com, and went to schoool. Did research on my Bio in the BioMed library. Came back, looked at the com for a while then did work. I am now cured.


On the forth day, at noght, while i was typing out my essay, my parents called. And told me in detail how to fix my internet connection. I tried to delay the inevitable, and resisted for 2 days.


log: day six
How could i have survived without the net?? i fixed it today, and immediately started blogging and checking my mail and chatted with friends and did some research on the net. So convenient. And fast. Addiction? Oh, that. Well. It doesn;t hurt right??

Current mood: Zoned out. Emotionless. Typing furiously.

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