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Give One, Get One: Laptops for Developing Nations
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Regular Everyday Normal Guy — Rap
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Where Your Scar Is by Anne Heaton
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At some point in the last 15 years, technology and the pressure to do more with less has led us to become a society where multi-tasking is king. It’s not uncommon for me, and many others, to be seen actively working on two or more major tasks at the same time. This is, of course, in addition to answering the eternal buzzing of our mobile phones, text messages, IMs, emails, and the like. Our minds drop into auto-focus as it sorts through the barrage of information being thrown at it every second.
In most cases, this is good. Just like it was intended, I find myself doing more things with less time; Accomplishing more work with fewer resources; Assisting more people in the same 24 hour day. However, while the the constant disruptions and mind-toggling may indeed lead to greater productivity, it leaves those things requiring more thought than action utterly stranded. Through repetition of this behavior I’ve lost all ability to truly focus all my attention on any one thing. I’m stuck in auto-focus and, as a result, am missing the details in the finer points of life.
Poetry, Photography, Programming, Reading, and deep thoughts regarding human nature, theology, and philosophy all get lost in the refocusing fueled by the endless beeping of electronic devices and scratching off of todo lists. I haven’t had a long telephone conversation with a friend or sat down with a good book in ages. I quit smoking almost three years ago and, more than anything else, I miss the excuse it gave me to just do nothing for fifteen minutes.
I need this part of me back. Either through mental, spiritual, chemical, or ritual means, I need to regain my ability to manually focus. With this I might once again dive deep into the core of my own being and celebrate that which makes us all so wonderfully human.
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It’s simple really: I’d much rather reflect than project. I’d prefer to be moved to emotion or insight by some external source more so than to enjoy myself doing something less than serious.
That isn’t to say that I don’t spend plenty of time being silly, or that I don’t relish the time where I can simply enjoy what’s been given to me. But, given the choice between a new, potentially upsetting, disappointing, life altering experience or another good time with good people, I’ll choose that moment of reflection over and over again.
It’s part of what makes me who am I. It’s both good and bad. It leaves both a curse and a blessing. It makes me both very unique and utterly common.
If that makes me overly-dramatic, prone to sadness, temperamental, short fused, or unpredictable then so be it. Because, at the same time, it leaves me insightful, passionate, caring, prepared, and dependable. All of which are part of who I am.
If you don’t get that then you don’t really get me.
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