Hav you ever spent so much time listening to drama and other "crap" going on around you that you start to retreat and wish you could just have a normal conversation with someone that doesn't involve sex or alcohol or swearing?
That has been me recently. I find it hard to open up when the people around me are so absorbed in the drama around them that they cannot see what is in front of them- life. It is ever changing and always evolving. And it is moving forward.
I've learned a lot in my twenty-one short years of life. One of those being that you have to let go of the past. You can remember it and think fondly (or not) upon it, but eventually you have to move on past yours and others mistakes and live your life in a way that honors both yourself and God.
Your past will always be part of your testimony, but the little every day things? Move on and stop living for those things in the past.
There's something about college life though, that brings out the worst in people. Girls get catty and whine, and boys...well, that is a complete mystery to me.
Tonight I got to run in to a very dear friend of mine. She has always been there for me, and I always seem to run in to her at exactly the moment I seem to need someone to help uplift me. She and I sat and talked. We talked about married life, how my graduation date is closer than I think it is, and we just got to catch up on life. I look at this woman and I love picturing her as a pastor's wife. But she is so much more than that! She is an uplifter, a child of God with a gift of healing. Not necessarily physical healing (although it woudln't surprise me), but emotional (which will come in handy when she graduates).
So God answered a prayer for me tonight. He brought someone along that could uplift me in a moment when I needed it most. I can now face my upcoming week with a smile on my face, ready to face what the world throws at me.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Technology...more or less connected?
I have been thinking a lot about technology.
Recently, I did not purchase unlimited minutes for my phone. When those minutes ran out, I was fine because I looked around my room and I still had my computer. Well, a few very short days later, my computer blew. Not blew as in there was smoke and fire, but the cord, which had just been fixed, short-circuited my computer.
So there I was. I didn't have a phone or a computer.
Such a first world problem, right?!
I decided to roll with the punches and my good friend let me check my email every night so I was set.
I was thinking today, while sitting in the ED at Highland (after getting unlimited minutes back on my phone) about how much we rely on technology as a society. Hospitals have gone digital with their records, patients sit on their phones or iPods the whole time (not that I blame them, stuck in an ED waiting for a Dr. or for their tests to get done), even I was sitting there on my phone texting people and making sure everyone knew we had made the drive because we were driving in a nasty blizzard.
Looking back over the last few days has made me appreciate human contact. Like having to go to a friend's room to talk to them or planning ahead to meet them for lunch. I realized that I have retreated into my room at times because technology has seemed so annoying to me. When someone is blasting their music, reading their texts out loud, checking their email/facebook, and trying to talk to someone else has just gotten to be too much for me. I retreated into my shell and didn't want to come back out.
I learned to enjoy books more. I got a lot farther in my knitting project, and I even got my homework done ahead of time. I was able to leave my phone behind and forget that it existed.
Technology, for me, was disconnecting me from people. What does it do for you? Does it connect you to others or does it hinder your day to day life?
Recently, I did not purchase unlimited minutes for my phone. When those minutes ran out, I was fine because I looked around my room and I still had my computer. Well, a few very short days later, my computer blew. Not blew as in there was smoke and fire, but the cord, which had just been fixed, short-circuited my computer.
So there I was. I didn't have a phone or a computer.
Such a first world problem, right?!
I decided to roll with the punches and my good friend let me check my email every night so I was set.
I was thinking today, while sitting in the ED at Highland (after getting unlimited minutes back on my phone) about how much we rely on technology as a society. Hospitals have gone digital with their records, patients sit on their phones or iPods the whole time (not that I blame them, stuck in an ED waiting for a Dr. or for their tests to get done), even I was sitting there on my phone texting people and making sure everyone knew we had made the drive because we were driving in a nasty blizzard.
Looking back over the last few days has made me appreciate human contact. Like having to go to a friend's room to talk to them or planning ahead to meet them for lunch. I realized that I have retreated into my room at times because technology has seemed so annoying to me. When someone is blasting their music, reading their texts out loud, checking their email/facebook, and trying to talk to someone else has just gotten to be too much for me. I retreated into my shell and didn't want to come back out.
I learned to enjoy books more. I got a lot farther in my knitting project, and I even got my homework done ahead of time. I was able to leave my phone behind and forget that it existed.
Technology, for me, was disconnecting me from people. What does it do for you? Does it connect you to others or does it hinder your day to day life?
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