Just days after I posted that schedule I bring you the sad, sad news of my disobedience. Nope, I haven’t kept to it at all, I keep procrastinating, everyday I make up an excuse, “I’m making a dress”, “I missed my train”, “I went to Bianca’s house” or “Mum wants me to help with dinner”. None of them actually legitimate excuses for ‘bludging’ the whole day.
So it makes me wonder, am I the only person who can’t keep to a simple schedule? Am I the only person who finds blogging more important than school? Am I the only person who can’t drop their laptops and do homework (well not technically, I have an e-book version of all of my textbooks)? Probably not… right? Is this generation glued to the computer? Doe everything have an ‘i’ or an ‘e’ in front of it? Are we doomed?? Probably not…
Here I am in ‘IT’ class (an elective subject mind you), writing a blog, listening to bad but ‘oh, so, addictive’ commercial music (the veronicas), charging my phone, checking my email and chatting on various forums. Good on me for multi tasking, I have no will power or self control.
What is it about technology that so addictive? Every morning on the train 80% if the passengers are listening to ipods and MP3s, most of them are also clutching onto their mobile phones furiously, checking the screen every few minutes to check for new messages. I myself do this too, it’s an automatic thing, every morning I get up, get dressed (not hard, uniform…), eat breakfast while checking my email (bad habit learnt from my parents, they don’t get the paper so they check ninemsn every morning), turn my phone on, then I brush my teeth while listening to the radio, every morning before my mum drives me to the station she asks “do you have your phone? MP3? Keys? Wallet? Lunch?” not once has she asked “do you have a book to read on the train?” technology is running our lives.
No more are the days of good old chatting, reading books, going to friend’s houses, family time, home work time, fighting over computer usage. Today everyone in our family has a laptop, we download everything, homework is done online, we don’t visit friends so much because we can just IM, or video call, family time is the family sitting around on the kitchen table with out laptops muttering one syllable words once in a while. Are we moving forward or descending backwards? Hard decision isn’t it?
Sad.
XXASAB
PS. Don’t worry I’ll be back tomorrow to type up another blog for all us internet addicts
PPS. Luckily I have my friend phoebe, who as a ateiner kid, is quite technologically disabled