My Summer with Time Away from the Communication Grid – A Beautiful Way to Live!

If you have a Facebook page you may have noticed along the massive movement of passing posts a silly thing asking if you would give up all your communication devices for three months for a million dollars.

 Of course this is ridiculous as many of the comments on this post  were how people could not live without their phones, Facebook Friends or all their other techie devices that fill their time. My bet is that in reality if this offer was made in a serious manner there would be a stampede for the money and cell phones being tossed in to the air! However on second thought many people are seriously suffering from technology addiction , I guess unless the offer was real we will never know what our addicted society would do.

I am not a fan of our way of life that now includes not only constant computer connections for work, school and home but cell phones and every other hand held device you can think of being an extension of the population’s body like an arm or growth coming from the hand. In short I hate the way society has become slaves to technology and think it is dangerous and the path to the end of our free will and destruction of mankind.

Of course I was guilty of spending huge amounts of time on the inter net taking care of my blog, writing articles and interviewing people however I was starting to really hate it.

I was finding that I was losing touch with normal time. I would be up all night working on the computer and sleeping late in to the day or worse not sleeping at all. I was coming up short with the time I needed to take care of my family and home. I felt cranky with people for no reason and depressed at times for no reason. I knew it was time to take a break. I also knew it was time to test out my theory that our way of life spent attached to all the new technology was really a negative in our life not a positive. The only way to see if this had any truth was to put my money where my mouth was and go completely off the grid of technology connection and turn it all off and test the waters without  that daily connection to the communication grid we have all been addicted to.

From May until September that is exactly what I did. I had help from my family and a good friend who kept my blog somewhat alive and took care of my Facebook page. My emails where read and anything I needed to take care of personally I did by calling the person keeping the communication one to one, not text to text. I do not own a cell phone and only watch the news , movies and a few paranormal shows making my TV time about an hour maybe two at most a day. Many days I did not watch it at all instead I did this old fashioned thing called reading, and loved every second of it.

I told my family and a few others what I was going to and to my surprise one of my sisters and two of the people who I interviewed for my abduction stories who have since become my friends decided to join me in the experiment.  I was happy about this as it would give the experience of being off of this grid we all attach ourselves to and this experiment an added depth if four of us were doing it.

All four of us had almost the exact reactions as we traveled this experience which I find interesting and makes me think it would be similar to others who may dare to walk this path of detaching and detoxing from the grid.

For the first few days I thought I must be crazy to think I could do this and wondered why I would commit to such a stupid thing. My habits of checking my emails four times a day and looking at my blog daily as well as sitting writing for hours per week sometimes until the wee hours of the night were hard wired in to my routine. Sitting searching the net for things I really did not care about also was something I had been doing as a habit and was quickly becoming an addiction. I did not really grasp any of this until I stopped doing it.

I felt cranky and lost and did not think I would make the week. My family kept me in line or I should say off line that first week and told me I was acting exactly like any addict with any other addiction. It was a real eye opener for me. I was the one who was lecturing the world to stop this constant link to what I call the communication grid or as I think of it as the demise of human free will and thought. My sister and two friends were going through the same exact things.

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