Taking time off to live...

February 8, 2012

Tomorrow I leave for a little vacation. I'm off to see family and friends...as well as fill my life with some new experiences. I'm working on my final preparations...and am trying to have very general plans about what I might want to do over the next 3 weeks.

I know what I HAVE to do over the next three weeks (which scares me immensely)...I need to stop texting and Facebooking....or at least limit myself to an hour at the most of this activity per day.

I'm one of those annoying people that you go to dinner with who is always on their phone. It's absolutely obnoxious and shows such disrespect to the people I'm sharing my time with. And, even knowing this, I can't stop. It's an addiction. I wouldn't call it a bad addiction...as it has enhanced my life in countless ways...but it's gone past the point of enhancing my life and might even be detracting from living my dreams.

While wondering whether to bring my iPad or laptop...and cracking my old iPhone 3 so that I could use it when I travelled...somewhere along the line I realized I'm crazy. I'm going to museums, to study some of my favorite artists, and mainly to have new experiences. The last time I did something like this...Facebook didn't exist. I didn't have a phone. I would go to a cafe every day and journal on postcards to my parents...so I would have the experience of retelling my experiences...and make my folks happy at the same time. I liked that I did that. It meant something.

I don't want to worry if I can charge the phone and computer, while blow drying my hair without blowing a circuit.

So...

The computer and phone are coming with me...but they will be off most of the time. I will try to blog every day...but I'm not keeping myself to that. In fact, if I don't blog it might be that I'm too busy experiencing things that I can write about later.

I won't be poking people on Facebook. I won't be calling my friends and family. I won't be texting. And I won't be on Facebook very often during my time away. I will miss the experience of doing all of those things...but this is something that I truly have to do. I have to know that I am stronger than a social networking program.

To my friends and family...know that I am missing you and wishing you were with me. Hope you have a great 3 weeks and that when I get back...we have lots of stories to share.

Love and KISSes...