Time

I know that modern technology makes everything faster and in some respects easier, but there are days when I miss having to look in the dictionary for a spelling, or going to the library for a book, or receiving a handwritten letter, or twirling a long phone cord around myself while talking to my best friend, or even hanging linens on an outdoor line to dry.

I'm not at all suggesting reverting back to a time before electricity. I take full advantage of those modern conveniences...I couldn't get it all done without them.


Maybe it is simply nostalgia, but I really miss some of life's simpler, more time consuming activities. The importance is really in the actual TIME it took to complete a task...it was time, in a sense, to slow down. One had to take more than a second to accomplish something and in those minutes were small moments where your mind could wander...where you could breathe...or even encounter something that you weren't expecting.

Sometimes, OK MOST of the time, technology moves a little too fast for me.