Turn Down the Volume
Is it just me, or is the problem with the modern age how much we can be exhorted?I have 60 or so emails right now, and most of them are from groups I wanted to exhort me. But lately I feel so swamped--I'm not sure why. Is it spring fever?--and just want them all to go away.
I get very few emails that I would consider "fun." As in coming from someone I know in person who wants to tell me something about life. The same is true of snail mail. Most of it is junk mail. And I have so many other things to deal with in life that I don't get around to telling the Direct Marketing Association to get these marketers off my back.
I have a vague sense that it didn't use to be this way, but maybe that's just nostalgia. I still have the letters from my grandmother and mother that they sent through college and after. I never get letters like that anymore. People send cards or they send email.
I remember a woman from college talking about how she was a great letter-writer. I never have been, but I admire it in other people, and I certainly like receiving it.
Now it's all electronic.
Or Hallmark.
Or an action alert.
Is that sad, or am I just depressed because I turned on the TV tonight after a week without (TV Turnoff Week)?
posted by Price of Silence @ 10:29 PM
3 Comments:
I find tv to be depressing. Of course, I barely watch any more, but the less I watch the less patience I have for it. Odd, since I can sit for hours and read.
But reading requires a little brain power, after all.
I think you're quite right there.
Snail mail, spam. I wonder why they even bother since I'm getting rid of that stuff as soon as I get it.
On the other hand, when I get a present or a package from someone I know in the mail, it just makes my day.
TV stresses me out. Probably because of the commercial breaks. Books don't have commercial breaks.
No, books draw you in and make you like it, whereas with TV...I always resent the attention it commands a little.
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