OCD

The unspoken attitude is, "I don't need you. I have the Internet." The Net provides an opportunity to play hide-and-seek, to say and not say, to be truthful and to pretend. There is a lot of communication going on that is futile and trivial.

P. M. Forni
Director of the Civility Initiative
Johns Hopkins University
in The Greatest Generation (of Networkers)
via Albert Mohler

highly debatable issue, there. and i'm not about to start. following this post, i found more related articles today - while surfing the net, of course. talk about irony. see the first comment in Stop Wasting Time. lol. (and thanks to the net, i've inserted at least 3 more links in here)

but seriously, this is a real and constant struggle for me. i'm not even the most wired person in the world. i remember i didn't have my own cellphone until the late 90s. i recall i was the only one w/o one when i attended a reunion with a few ex-schoolmates; i was also the one w/o an university education. then i was SMS'g all the time later, like it's payback time. i was one of those irritating ones who'd be texting as she entered the train, crossed the road, etc. i think it had a little to do with youth and the old me... or maybe it's just a lame excuse. now, i can't really be bothered to check my phone for messages. i never set my phone up for surfing since that'd mean more expenses. i can't say if this will remain since i'm always a late bloomer. who knows, perhaps twittering or tweeting would just die overnight? (nah, i doubt it :P)

then came blogging. given that the trend started in 2002, you can say i'm really bloody late to the party. oh, before blogging, i was quite active on forums. this should be sometime in 2004. i think i didn't even know about the blogosphere until 2005-6. for a long time, i didn't understand the point of blogging. i was being biased, of course. it's primarily like keeping a diary - an electronic diary. i actually tried to blog on LJ some years back. purely private; not a single soul gets to read my entries. i think i did under 5 entries. they're so cryptic they don't make sense any longer. lol.

now that i've joined the bloggers' party, i'm back to being online almost all of my waking hours again. truth be told, i don't relish being addicted to the internet. time and again, i would take it to the Lord to help me wean off this habit. i'd actually feel a sense of pride when i managed to stay offline and not suffer from any withdrawal symptoms. at the heart of it, i fear it's the fact that i don't really have a life offline. i mean, it's true i have few friends and i'm single and that's really about it. i don't exercise, my hobbies are typically watching movies and reading - which you can do online these days. i've picked up drums recently but am now taking a break while i focus on school. take out the school and drums bit and i'm really a very 'free' person. when i did get out, it's usually to catch up with old friends. i do shop but i go thru cycles. life has got to be more than these... 

what is your #1 time waster, if it isn't spending time on the net? do you feel guilty like i do (i first entitled this entry "guilty as a goat can be") and are you doing anything to change things? i'm on FB and twitter but i'm hardly logged on there. i just never caught on and i hope i never ever will (i better not have to take this back!). not that this makes me feel any less guilty about how i spend my time. confession: i should be mugging for my exams already but two days have passed me by and no prizes for guessing how the time was spent.

Today is the wise man's day; tomorrow is the fool's day. The wise man, when he sees what ought to be done, does it today. The foolish man, when he sees what ought to be done, says, 'I will do it tomorrow.' The men who always do today the thing they see ought to be done today make a success for time and eternity. The men and women who put off until tomorrow what ought to be done today make a shipwreck of time and eternity. The Holy Ghost saith, Today. man, in the folly of his heart, says, Tomorrow.

R.A. Torrey

from http://www.thewordteaches.com/QuotesRZ.htm