Welcome back to the hell hole… I did get a talk something along those lines this morning. Just great. The only good thing about being back in this place is switching my brain back on. Well I certainly hope it turns back on or I’ll be screwed attempting to maintain my average. Attended my first classes of the semester today and I’m very glad that Mondays have gone from my worst to my best day of the week. Ease myself back into the swing of things… hopefully… as into things as you ever get in this place at any rate.
But anyway… As for a topic for me to ramble about… I’m sadly lacking. I was thinking about what it means to be ‘incommunicado’ the other day. But unfortunately I lost all train of thought before I got back to my computer… In brief (as that’s as good as I do remember the topic). That incommunicado is a situation that can be reached these days simply by switching off a mobile phone. Depending on your work based popularity it could be 5 minutes or 5 days (I fill sorry for the last group) but eventually people will fell completely unable to contact you.
It was more about the modern day dependency on technology for people tracking. And the instantaneous stress out that often takes hold if you can’t get at a hold of a person RIGHT THIS SECOND. Perhaps this is also due to an increasing tendency for people to leave stuff… of all degrees of importance… to the last minute. Its habit… because they can. The quicker you can get into contact with people some of the time, the quicker you assume you can get into contact with people all the time. Its funny how that works… its like the movie Click really… That's about the most productive thing i did yesterday – watch Click. Rather clique sort of a movie though really.
Can something like procrastination be considered to be an epidemic? Anyway they say it is something the younger generations suffer from tremendously from the habit. Short attention spans and procrastination go hand in hand. It tends to be more the attention span that people worry about… but nevertheless. Procrastination the generations increasing inability to plan in the long term or pay attention for periods of time comes from an age of instant response. People have not always expected a reply a few days before to make the arrangements so in the human generalising manner they assume people are never going to expect a few days notice… and from there it progresses.
This topic actually leads me onto something else… One of those things you notice while talking on MSN. You must remember I am a Gen Y member, 18 and proud… Constant but not personal contact with our friends is something we experienced all through high school. Texting from school to home, instant messaging once you’re at home, phone calls if you must (never my favourite thing though). A friend and I were discussing procrastination. As a note this is perhaps the best topic to discuss when attempting to procrastinate without anything really to talk about. The number of hours I have spent procrastinating and discussing the simple fact that I’m procrastinating I’m sure would be quite amazing.
Though as always we weren’t simply discussing procrastination. In fact we were discussing T.V. usage… and the fact that I personally do not have access to television during the working week very easily. Not that I don’t have a number of T.V. series on DVD to while away the time but still… So from there it lead on to the challenge that because I don’t have television i probably get a lot more done. I wish. If i locked myself in a room with nothing by my work to occupy me I would procrastinate… daydream, outright sleep, knocking my head against the wall rather than work I’m sure it wouldn’t matter. In this particular conversation, remembering I have all the distractions of my room (including 2 computers – one of those stories…), I picked up on Facebook.
Facebook is one more of those things which just allows our generation to confirm our generalisations about life. The whole constant contact thing really goes to the extreme on there. You don’t have to be on there at the same time as your friend to talk, to communicate, to ‘feel a part of their lives’ or something equally as ridiculous when you say it out loud. At the same time it also provides an outlet for procrastination. One of the things with procrastination is it is almost always worse in company – however artificial. I procrastinate on Facebook… a lot.
Ever sat on your homepage just WAITING from somebody else to say something on their Facebook page? Not even so you can reply to it… Just to read it… to ‘give you something to do’… Incapable of giving yourself something to do even though you obviously have something you should be doing… or else why procrastinate? The less you have to do the less desire you have to do anything… Or that’s how I find it when i go from work to holidays and back to work again.
This time I’ve really done it… There isn’t a much of a link between any of my ideas here… I’ve had as much thought I suppose recently but not the normal leading argument type of thinking I often have with myself. Ahh well… maybe after spending a few hours staring at a Facebook page – something I haven’t done in a few days – something will come to me. Until then.
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