A Near-Future Plan: Focus on the tasks at hand..

How many of us can part with our technological devices for a day? Most of us can't part it for even one minute. We worry about calls and messages we have yet to receive. We get bored with our work at hand and need our phone for entertainment purposes. Some of us even find technological devices give us security and comfort. Times now is just so different as compared to the past. However, though there are much advantages technology brings, our freedom and privacy tends to be the cost of having such technology.

Do you experience times when you just don't want you phone to ring any more? Or perhaps you just want some time on your own. Yet with technology all around us, it is difficult. People want can reach you through much different media. It used to be mail, then pager, fixed landlines phone call, mobile phone, instant messenger. Now, I don't even bother listing all of them out because they are just too much to list out. I bet you don't want to see a blog post filled with social media website, communicate applications and other communicating methods. 

Having so much said, the point I am trying to put forward is simple: I want some time on my own. Yet it seems so impossible to achieve that. My immediate supervisor made me create my work account on my mobile phones and I got to read up even when I am at home. In addition, social apps on our mobile phones seem to prompt us endless updates on our friends' messages, status, photos as if it want and need your response all the time. Every time the notifications come in, and your phone lights up, you will start to wonder if the notification is important. What if it is urgent and require your immediate attention, you will eventually give up and check your notification. To some of you, it may be a good and excellent tool to keep track of things. However, to me, it is restricting my freedom more and more everyday. 

Well then, let us side-track for just a little bit. May be it is because of my horoscope. Aquarius, one who value freedom more than any other things in the world. Though I might be valuing my freedom, I am giving them up just because of my family financial status and needs. I have to be responsible for them because no one else would. Yet, when I start thinking this way, stress and depression slowly crept into me and I will soon become too crippled to even achieve anything. 

There are many things I have to give up to regain my stable and carefree life which I once had (more than 20 years ago, when I am still a kid). However, the important decision now is that, I have to give up a person instead of a thing. Person...Is it even ethical to do that? Giving up on a person just to have more time and focus on something else. I don't have an answer to that. I have tried communicating and negotiating about giving me extra time for my work and other commitments. However, the end results were quarrels and fights all the time. I know we all want to stay with someone whom we are comfortable with. In this society, not everyone has the privilege of doing that. You have to give up something in order to gain something else if you don't have the power, the money and the time. Yes, I will give it up. I need to be determined to do so. 

As for my mobile devices, tablets, laptop, I can't possibly throw them all away and eventually have some time on my own. Even now, I am typing this post with my Skype and Facebook notifications distracting my the whole time. We all need technology, hence, we can't possibly stay away from it. We can, of course, take a short break from it. However, eventually we will still need them. Doesn't this paragraph sounds so much similar to a love quote?

It's weekend. Free time finally. Hope you guys will get to enjoy these two days of rest and play. Smile!