You know that I published my last post in November. Really, has it been that long since I wrote a post. What have I been doing all this while? Come on, most of you know the answer, don't you? I have a TODDLER at home. Well, is that the answer?
Then you might wonder what I do when she takes her nap. Yes, she does sleep for an hour or so and I completely have my ME time...totally. I ensure that I don't enter the kitchen or do the endless house hold chores or even pick the phone up when she sleeps. I have the entire time to MYSELF. Then, what is it that I have been doing? Reading books, Perhaps...Yup, I don't deny it, only when the book has been a page turner. Besides, I do most of the reading when I nurse/put my DD to sleep. In retrospect, I find that I have spent most of my precious ME time, doing-nothing, a.k.a social networking. How very wasteful can that be??
Now most of you might disagree with me instantly. I'm not surprised. Don't we catch up with our family/friends/acquaintances/colleagues? I don't deny it. We get to read what our friend fixed for that romantic dinner night with those mouth-watering pictures...Aww....How sweet can that get??? We also get to see the vacation hot spots of a long lost school friend...OMG!OMG! Did you really go there? How lucky...Then, our dear colleague flaunting her newly acquired size-zero shape in that gorgeous dress...At least, this is a little motivating (to shed our ever "cushiony" flab). Right?
Sometimes (read most often) these social networking sites act as a platform for some juicy gossip. How many times have we been interested to know what our friend's friend or friend's friend's friend is up to? The list is never ending. Also, the more attention "networking sites" get from us, the more addictive we become to it. Vicious...very very vicious...I agree that humans are fundamentally curious living beings, but then, is so much curiosity essential?? Curiosity that takes away our invaluable time, resource and most important of all peace of mind. Misplaced curiosity, yes that is how it is called.
As the adage goes, better late than never...I have decided not to dwell on these social networking sites. Of course, I would log in but never reside on it for too long. I only hope I am able to keep up the vow and so in turn I hope to blog more.
There I see two little groggy eyes stare at me... My ME time is up for the day :-))
2 comments:
:o) You might see super savvy updates, but you never know how their day has really been. Maybe the "like" s or comments were the only boost they had on that day! You just never, never know, do you!!!!! :o)
Very true :-)
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