I have just a small thought. I write this post, cringing a little as I do. I have a question for you. What would your life be like if you didn't have your laptop? Just thinking about that makes me feel a little bit guilty, because I know that I would have so much more free time to do (in most cases, probably) more meaningful things! My laptop is a powerful tool for good... but it can also be a vice. Why do some of the best gifts to us have such a power to ensnare us as well! It's like a pendulum... the farther it swings one way (for good), the farther it can go the other way (for bad)!
I suppose the only way to solve the problem comes with these two words: responsibility and discipline. I hope that I can continue to develop those, so that I can be better myself and also teach my kids those important principles as well, so that we can all avoid the "technology takeover" and live real, productive, and happy lives!
Doing my homework would be SO difficult!!! I definitely consider it a huge blessing that my parents bought me a laptop. However, I may have been more productive without it, because then it would have forced me to go to the library whenever i needed to type a paper, research, etc. haha who knows!
ReplyDeleteMy computer broke the other day and I was literally SO LOST. The first thing I thought of was losing all of my pictures. Then I realized that the paper I had just finished was lost forever. Luckily, my genius dad fixed my computer and all is well but I went through a 24 hour period of using campus computers, and other such awful things. It made me very grateful for my laptop.
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