Disconnect to Connect…

I’ve recently come across the following expression: “Disconnect to Connect”

First on it didn’t make much sense because I feel like I currently can’t live without being connected to:

My 600 something Facebook “friends”

My 200 something MSN contacts

My 80 something What App contacts

My 40 something BBM contacts

Skype, G-Talk, Hotmail, G-mail, Work e-mail, University e-mail, LinkedIn…


Not being digitally connected makes me feel isolated and frustrated… if I don’t have my BB I’m searching for the red light notification everywhere like a manic!

Yet in the same time, as much as I feel connected digitally, it doesn’t mean I’m as connected offline. I might know so much about the people I’m connected to online, but the truth is if I run into them in an offline social gathering I might not have that much to speak to them about… let alone we may pass by each other and be complete strangers!

Who we are online isn’t the same person we are offline… we act differently, we speak differently and interact differently…

Being socially connected online will never replace being social offline. I feel the more connected you are online, the less connected you are offline! It’s an inverse relationship.

So when I think about it… it isolates me more rather than connects! It messes up real and actual social relationships

For instance:

You wish your friends a Happy Birthday online rather than personally…

You talk on bbm / Whats App rather than call...

You create events and invite people electronically…

You chat rather than talk…

You announce BIG news like getting engaged, getting married or being pregnant through a post…

The list can go on…

Being able to talk online or to keep in touch through new technologies doesn’t mean people have real relationships, true friendships or intimacy… unfortunately sometimes!

I’m not denying how valuable technology and new digital networking are… but like anything else… it gives something… and takes away another!

Sometimes we just need to disconnect in order to really connect with one another! We need to unplug…

Bed Rest...

Whoever coined the term bed rest was a smart dude that I totally admire! I tried finding who came up with the term but wasn’t lucky enough...

I’ve been sick the last few days (that’s where I have been, I didn’t decide to give you all a break from my amazingly interesting posts... definitely being sarcastic) and honestly what works better than medicine is bed rest… just complete and utter rest… seriously works like magic for me.

I figured sleep cures me, lol! Brilliant!

So obviously I hate being sick, it sucks! Last Thursday and Friday were horrible! Being sick in the winter really really really makes me miserable!

However, on Saturday… when I was a little better, bed rest actually was not so bad!

I realized I slept REALLY well, (from Thursday 7 pm til Saturday 7 am, minus the times I had to wake up to take meds, use the bathroom, run around the streets at 1 am to take some anti-throwing up shot and so on...) after I’ve been completely deprived of sleep!

I sent a lot of work emails, something I usually never do on weekends, which made today a lot easier given I'm still sick!

And I READ!!! Something I haven’t done since summer ‘cause I had no time what so ever! I read an entire book (my favorite one even)! Well, it’s a book I know pretty damn well (The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton), but I love it and I’ve been wanting to read it for a very long time and I finally found time for it!! YaY!

So being sick still sucks… I mean it from the bottom of my heart! Throwing up all through Thursday can’t be considered fun what so ever!

But I managed to turn it around in the end of the weekend and I did my favorite thing ever (reading, in case you haven’t noticed), lol

Okie… I admit this entry is boring as hell and pointless BUT I’m excited I turned a retarded weekend and a terrible cold into something good when I’d usually complain and whine about it…

Yay for me :) I’m sick and cheerful and that rarely happens!