Saturday, October 01, 2005

The inconvenience of the convenience...

I know the title sounds a little paradoxical, but it's so true when it comes to today's advanced communication venues. Cellphone, IM, email, blog, forum... Through the cyberspace, we found our long lost high school friends, friends on other continents, or even ex boyfriend from our kindergarten era. I still remembered how excited I was when I got connected to these people that seems are millions of light years away from me, but after a while, this excitement waned as I could almost see them online everyday on MSN messenger. Eventually, we ran out of topic to chat about, and there literally were nothing to catch up with. so, right now, we ended up ignoring each other online. Technology is a good thing, but it can make things so easy that somehow in the process something invaluable is missing, missing in the instant satisfaction of the cellphone dialing, IM typing, or email sending. Everybody seems to be an email/IM/phone call away. I admit that we human beings are herding animals, and it's especially important today to get connected to one another, but like an old chinese saying goes, too much is the same as being lacking, it is too much right now. we need some distance, some seclusion, or even a little inconvenience. Without the convenience of the technology, maybe we could appreciate each other a little more, maybe we will try harder to stay connected, or we probably would communicate even more, maybe, I don't know...

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