Early evening, lounging on the chesterfield (that's Canada-speak for 'sofa' or 'couch'), watching a movie 6ft wide projected on the wall, cellphone an arm's length away just in case someone (anyone) sends a text, latest video game console doing it's thing over in the corner, and laptop busily surfing the net.
That's a lot of technological luxury for one person. And, arguably, all of it completely unnecessary. Not one bit of it helps me achieve, or succeed, or anything really. Actually, most of the time it's all more just a giant time-filler/waster than anything else.
And then it happened. The laptop just shut off. Completely dead. I wasn't even touching it at the time, so it wasn't something I did. Wouldn't respond to the power button either. Dead. No lights, no warnings, no nothing. Dead. Fears of terrible viruses and expensive repair bills floated through my head.
But I remained calm and did what any self respecting geek would do. I hooked the video game system up to the internet and Googled the problem. Had it fixed in 10 minutes.
The whole thing made me think about how 'in excess' our lives are. How much STUFF we have and fill our lives with, but we really don't need any of it. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to give up any of it. The Amish gave up technology some 200 years ago and look where that got them!
Blaugh. I donno... Sometimes I just think about how friggen lucky we are to have been born & raised in a place like Canada and how different my life could have been had I been born anywhere else. Is that just a roll of the dice happenstance thing, or was there a reason I was born into the life of blue collar sloth while the next kid was born into a 3rd World war zone? And what is my responsibility to that kid? Do I have a responsibility? Or am I just supposed to sit back and enjoy what I've got?
The whole thing hurts my head.
And then I found this:
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