If you look at the last date I posted, you'll notice that it's been two months since I last wrote. Other than busy-ness, there's not really a whole lot of reason for that.
Except that I've been distracted.
A few days ago, I came here and wondered where the time had gone. After all, so much has happened between now and then! And then I realized what happened... A few weeks after I wrote, I re-joined the world of facebook, thus sending me into a new sphere of activity. It was fun for awhile, and actually still is! But I've decided that there are better things in life. For example...
- Time with friends is so much more valuable when you find out information from them first-hand.
- There really are other things on the internet besides facebook. Places where I can actually learn something.
- I get a lot more done. Even though I don't have internet at home, I get status updates on my phone and can connect with the cyber world that way.
- Instead of checking my phone first thing in the morning, I can take time with my Creator.
- Happy-birthday wishes? In my opinion, they're much more special when your friends actually remember your day and shoot you an e-mail, instead of being informed by an automatically generated calendar.
- It's so freeing to be away from it....... those of you who have done the same thing as me know what I mean. :-)
I wrote those off the top of my head, but if I stopped to think more, I could come up with several reasons.
In short, it was a distraction.
I'm glad to be undistracted by it now! I plan to use the time to spend with my heavenly Prince, and grow closer to Him and His ideal for me. And... while I'm off facebook, I think you'll probably hear more from me, here. ;-)
I resonated with those thoughts, even though I've never joined facebook. (Email and even blogs can be just as distracting.) I have found that I fall into such a mindset very easily. Recently my mother coined a term to help me realize how much time I was wasting. "Beware of DDT!" DDT stands for Dilly-Dally Tendencies and/or Daily Distractions and Temptations.
ReplyDeleteI like that! I might have to start using DDT to help myself remember too. ;-)
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