The Importance Of …

This summer vacation the value of un-plugging, from phones, email, blogs, facebook and all other forums of technology has inspired me. A grand vacation for me holds a balance between adventure, exploring, seeing, doing, touching, tasting and then resting, reading, reflecting, a little, and in general kind of percolating, like coffee. I like to allow time to let ideas, goals, thoughts and feelings bubble up. 

I love technology, gizmos and gadgets galore, but regular periods of un-plugging, from all things that ring, beep or buzz, lets me live in the moment. When really living in the moment I am not planning the next moment, reliving past moments, recording this moment or reading about other people’s moments. I am just being and that is beautiful. ( Looking for more ways to just be. Check out Zen Habits)

Please don’t get me wrong I believe there is a time and a place to be connected with technology but there is also a need find time to connect with your own “personal computer.” 

A teacher gave her class an assignment to list what they thought were the Seven Wonders of the World. There was some disparity, but among the most commonly listed were: the Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon, the Panama Canal, the Empire State Building, St Peter’s Basilica and the Great Wall of China.

One young girl seemed to be struggling with her list and the teacher asked if she needed some help. The student was appreciative of the offer for help because she said, “I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.”

When asked what she had listed thus far, the girl hesitated because her list was markedly different from the others. With some reticence she read, “I think that the Seven Wonders of the World are to see, to hear, to touch, to taste, to feel, to laugh, to love.”

From the Article, ” The Real Seven Wonders of the World”
By Nadene Grieve Deslippe-

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well yet.”
Joe Ancis