I’ve noticed a few of my friends struggling with being online. It seems to be stressing them out. A couple of things happened over the last few days that made me think about this.
I noticed that there were several people contacting me that assumed I would get their message immediately. I use IT a lot. But it might surprise some people to hear that I don’t actually have myself plugged in to the internet on a permanent basis. Some time ago I took the decision to remove social media and email from my phone.
It made an enormous difference to my life. If you feel you are getting internet stressed then I would suggest trying it. I did it by getting a cheap phone and a cheap Chromebook. The cheap Chromebook had two advantages – the screen size matched the age of my eyes and it came with a keyboard that matched the size of my fingers.
I watched Casablanca today. Rick never says “Play it again Sam”. I thought I would pay close attention to the dialogue to see what was said. As I watched it I was really surprised at how much of the dialogue was made up of really impressive single lines. We’ll always have Paris, This is the start of a wonderful relationship, here’s looking at you kid are the well known ones, but there are so many more. Pity we don’t make films with dialogue like that any more.
So watching black and white films and avoiding the internet – am I now officially old? I even enjoyed Tom Jones tonight…