GeT reAL!!!

Written By jeff swaney

Come on everybody let’s GeT reAL!!. Let’s set the phone, tablet or whatever electronic device DOWN NOW. (of course, after you read this...haha) Then take a deep breath. We all need to spend way less time with that stuff.

How about read a book, an actual paper book, that you can hold in your hands. We hear that the business is dying. No one has the attention span to read a book anymore. Such a shame, as when you get that book in your paws, and you can smell it and turn the pages and it's a completely different life experience and can be very relaxing. Also stimulates your imagination. As Einstein said, imagination is more important than knowledge. Here is a portion of a collection of friends' books, mostly autographed copies that are a cherished possession. 

The disinterest in reading a book has come with the advent of the YouTube TikTok world that we now live in. People‘s attention spans have gone down to just minutes or less and they seem to relish the constant stimulation from the sound bites. Who wants to read a book when in that amount of time you can watch 1000 crazy videos? Oh yes and I’m a hypocrite. I’m a victim as well. I’ve got a social media platform, and I put all that stuff out. Yup. But what I suggest is that we limit ourselves And do other things with our time, including read a real book. My kids have become addicted to the screens and it’s almost impossible at times to extract them. The schools bark about limiting screen time to two hours, but since Covid they adopted the iPad almost exclusively now, so the students are on screens for 10+ hours a day sometimes. It’s not good.  Ever ask them to hand you the device? They will battle you.

We’ve gotten stuck with too much screen time actually forced on us. Every single thing has a portal with a password that has to be different and changed all the time so much so that I have a password file that has literally 167 entries in it. Just counted em. It’s encrypted. But if anyone got a hold of it, I’d be sunk. Oh yeah, and we’re supposed to be convinced that we are all safe and secure with all the stuff. It’s all for our convenience, - It’s bullshit. 

I like reading old books that have yellowing pages. They smell better to me. My current read has been going back to Albert Schweizer and this ancient text (actually newer edition at 1971). Reverence for life. What a great concept.

So read more books, get outside, get together with your friends and make sure to set the dang phones down and talk about something besides sharing each other’s video discoveries over dinner. Ugggh  Hate that!!  Force yourself to think - time is precious. Many have passed. We are all social animals, let’s get together and interact!! And enjoy life! It’s reverence for life that's necessary to escape the AI bots!!  Love to all. Let’s get together in the coming months. You can check my website for events. Simple link there at JEFFSWANEY.COM that I’ve put together to allow us to gather laugh. hug and high five! BOOOOM!!

jeff swaney https://jeffswaney.com
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