There's a old cliché, "If you want a friend, get a dog" still exists in the 21st Millennium. It's well established in an healthcare community that animals will accomplish lots and gives a simple joy for you to extend your human life span as well as improve both the quality of life. Don't live on or vicariously through your own personal computer.
A pastor once expressed his job was to comfort and ease the affected and to afflict both the comfy. Thus we have both the distinction involving one right stay friend and a good inanimate electrical material - in this case your laptop or computer. Your pet comforts while the computer, incorrectly employed and then/or abused, is one criminal and also one murderer
Besides, the computer, especially if you run a Microsoft Operating System and Microsoft production software, requires much more maintenance than does a pet. This alone is enough to drive most users' blood pressure through the roof. How many times do you suspect that needs to happen before it begins to take a toll on the human body?
You know what I am talking about... like when your computer locks up with a box popping up on the monitor's screen saying it needs to restart now, and won't let you do anything else until you acquiesce and reboot. There goes your last few minutes of work. Another blood pressure jump! It sure is for the Tennessee Mountain Man!
Father may know best, but mother knows even better and she always made the children set across the room from the TV concerned about it ruining their vision. Now that same mom allows the children and grandchildren to set on top of a twenty-one (21) inch monitor, even closer to a laptop, and play games ad infinitum. The result being more and more of our children are wearing glasses and contact lenses at younger and younger ages.
Mom also insisted that little ones spend much more time outside playing in the yard than obsessing over the magic box in the corner, and the children were healthier. There were fewer cases of childhood diabetes and hardly any childhood obesity.
Children learned skills greater than cheating x-box and PSP, and mom and pop never heard of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The computer man and everyone else is seemingly required to work on or at computer consoles to some extent these days. As a result, the entire family now either suffers from a computer related ailment or is at real risk of developing one.
With the advent and prevalence of the personal computer and gaming gizmos, the heart, which is a muscle, gets little or no exercise. As if the TV did not create enough couch potatoes resulting in what amounts to atrophy of the heart muscle, the PC seems to have claimed the remainder of man.
A computer cannot hold you on cold nights or enjoy a walk hand-n-hand with you in the moonlight. It cannot comfort you when you are sick or improve your mood when you are sad. It cannot feed you when you are hungry nor give you a drink when you are thirsty... at least not yet. The PC cannot yet carry on a civil or reasoned conversation. Irrespective of one's addictions and all the attractions on the internet, it is not true social interaction and it certainly cannot satisfy the libido try as some may.
Used improperly it can and does drive wedges between husbands and wives, and between children and parents. Like a drug, once addicted, and it is addictive, it can cost one his job and it has. Like a nosy gossiping neighbor or ticked off lover, it has the propensity to tell the world (friend and foe alike) everything it knows (both good and bad) about you. And, in case you didn't know, there are hackers from people with malicious intentions, to your employer, to Microsoft, to insurance companies, to financial institutions, to the government who have the ability to ask your computer what it knows about you whenever they wish. And, your computer... your friend in whom you confide everything, like a spurned lover is more than willing to betray her paramour and spill her guts literally.
Used improperly it will and does drive wedges involving couples, and then between children and parents. Like a drug, once addicted, and it is addictive and you will hook, it will cost someones work and it has. Like a nosy chatty gossiper neighbor or a ticked off lover, that provides the propensity to tell the world (friend and also foe alike) everything it knows (both amazingly good and also harmful) regarding someone or about you. And then, in case you didn't know, there are hackers around the world, a people with malicious intentions, to the company, to Microsoft, to any corporations that used internet and computer, to monetary institutions, to the government who have a chance to request your own computer what it knows on that you anytime they wish. And then, your personal computer... your friend in who that you confide anything, finally spurned lover will be more than willing to betray her paramour and spill her courage literally
My computer... my friend? With such friends who needs enemies?
Image from my Cellphone Up close with mother nature
Now shut the computer down, and go outside and play. Have fun.. enjoy the nature and be a kid again...
2 comments:
still in palawan? lucky you. I would go crazy if i can't be with my computer for a day. It's the cheapest medium to connect with my family abroad.
new look to this site. i thought you had this deleted?
need to keep busy that's why I tried a new look for this blog...
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