We’re sooo dependent on electronic communications today, it’s a little scary. Have you ever tried not emailing or surfing the internet for more than one day? How does it feel? Not only are we dependent on computers and internet for our daily life (i.e. searching or buying stuff, reading the news, connecting with people via email, facebook, etc.), but our lives are unfortunately connected to a computer in one form or another. And, if these computers/electronics fails, we’re screwed.
My computer died on me two weekends ago… are macbooks suppose to crash and malfunction? Maybe it was my fault for not backing up my pictures, documents, music, etc. on a external harddrive, but for the past two weeks it has been blatantly clear that if I couldn’t recover my files, the last 6 months of my life would have been ‘deleted’ from memory.
At the same time, the last two weeks has been a relief since I couldn’t use my computer afterwork… which gave me more time to socialize and connect with people and friends. And to follow the preparations of the Tour de Timor, the first ever cycling tour. There’s a total of USD$75,000 in rewards!
2 weeks without a computer and, at times, it feels like a simple, non-connected, life is what we all need because I think we try to make things too complicated.
outside the box from joseph Pelling on Vimeo.