January 25, 2015
(This is part of a 365 project during my 70th year where I write and
illustrate a blog on each day's gift.)
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| Young Chow Fried Rice at the Szechuan Cafe in Pasadena, Maryland |
“We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will
get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service
on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology
has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time
we Google, check-in, and hashtag,” author Jeremy Glass criticizes technology.
I say this is not necessarily so. There is a flip side too:
Earlier today, David and I went to Savage Mill where we sold
some costume jewelry to Caplan’s Auction for $50. After that, we drove to
Baltimore to Manzar’s Watermark Gallery for a literary reading event. On the
way home, I was checking my iPhone while David was driving when something
jumped out at me. “Seeking to commune with real humans,
and not just Facebook posts!” Friend Margie had posted on Facebook—would someone like to
meet her and Joe at a restaurant tonight?
Sure! Good idea. I responded and soon we were having dinner
with them at the Szechuan Café in Pasadena. Good food, conversation and friends—what
a great combination. Our dinner was paid for by costume jewelry.
So often calendars become clogged with all things scheduled
and there is little room for spontaneity. Unfortunately, this extends to
vacations for some people too. Not so for us. David and I like surprises and
when we travel, we often do not know where we will be from one day to the next
or what adventures we will have. On our last trip west, while hubby drove, I checked
information on my iPhone about the area we were in and then made decisions on the spot about where
to go.
For us, technology was a catalyst for our 2014 travel
adventures and for our dinner tonight with friends.
My gift today was spontaneity.
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