Posted by admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 19-01-2010
Close your eyes and imagine getting home after work, hugging your family and sitting down for dinner. After dinner, you get the kids ready for bed. After you tuck them in, you and your spouse share some quiet time watching TV, reading your favorite books, or whatever you most enjoy doing together. Then you retire to bed, your minds clear of all the headaches and hassles of the day…all is quiet and peaceful. The phone didn’t ring once. There were no calls from friends or family, no calls from pesky telemarketers, your insurance agent, or the local charity hitting you up for donations. (You’ve taken care of all of those things with online access, online bill payments, and e-mail.) How would an evening like this make you feel…if you got to spend every waking moment without interruption, with those who mattered most to you?
Is this a difficult thing for you to imagine? Do you think a world like this will ever present itself to your family? If not, why not? What are you doing today to make this kind of quiet world possible? Do you answer those phone calls? Do you buy from those telemarketers? Or do you research your products, purchases and service providers before asking a sales representative for help? What will the trend be in the future? Do we anticipate having more or fewer interruptions going forward? And whose choice do we want that to be?
Interruptions is one of the consequence of our progress. But it is our choice if we allow it unto ourselves. I am truly blessed of experiencing the peace and quiet in the company of my loved ones.
Very well said, Walter. “Progress” is a relative term, but you are absolutely correct in stating that it is our choice to acknowledge or ignore those interruptions.