That seems to be the theme these days, online and in everyday life, I am being prompted to link this or connect to that!..I can only imagine what Henry David Thoreau would have done in my days verses his own, Back when he had to get away for awhile to live simply he went to Walden's Pond .. were would he now find free of all the comings and goings, connecting and linking's?
I do not know were such a place still exists.. but I am bound and determined to make it my mission to find out, and I am telling no one of it's location, as it is up to each one of us to find that hidden place where we can just go and get disconnected.
Even if we try to not be as connected, they still draw us in every time we make a purchase. The retailer wants us to use a card so he can put us in his data base and keep track of where we are and what we are buying? Have you thought about this? Is it "Big Brothers" way of keeping tabs on us?
They link us to stores and products placing us in groups that we do not even know we are in.
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Our cell phones are linked to a data base too and we can be found by those if we are "lost", and speaking of lost, are we?
I mean if we go in the grocery store to purchase a loaf of bread we are faced with multiple choice's of what kind, how much, baker, etc,. etc. and instead of making an executive decision and getting that loaf of bread, we have to get on the phone and call someone to tell us what we should have already known, because there is more at stake here then being connected or disconnected by technology, it is the connections we have with each other, for if we are truly in sync we would not need to call someone because we would have been listening and engaged when we were asked to get the bread in the first place.I have never been so connected yet so disconnected in all my life, but I am willing to make the effort to keep trying to make connection's that will last a lifetime.


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