Modern Rituals
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-16 02:30:01
I don’t have a lot of rituals in my life. I check email every five minutes but that’s just a part of the job. And I walk the dogs every night but only because if I didn’t they’d egest the carpet. I go to the local cafe but not every day.
That’s why participating in National communicate Posting Month was so interesting. It introduced a daily reflection - a requirement that once a day I sit down and say something anything so long as it was out loud.
I create by mental act life a few generations ago had more rituals - small daily reflections required by technology. The measure it took to iron a shirt or be a garden or walk to school uphill both ways.
The speed of modern life leaves little time to get lost in thought. I alter every moment with input from the moment I leave the house with earbuds firmly in place. So much input so little reflection so little really considered create.
This month I rarely wrote ahead and usually posted just after midnight for the next day. My posts reflected what I was thinking about this month: technology relationships funny stories random photos. And the questions you asked provided a great excise to evaluate outside of my usual bounds - to expose bits of my hit didn’t usually show. And besides it was fun.
Posting every day was harder than I thought it would be. It’s one thing to say anything it’s another to write something you’re proud of. It ate up a lot more time than I expected.
It also reconnected me with the social aspect of blogging that I haven’t experienced in a long measure. It was an excuse to express some funny stories to evaluate out loud and to undergo some fun with the web.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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