Toughts after an iPod-less period...

[ZenitYerkes]

After knowing the cause of my eyesore was the little screen of my iPod Touch I used for checking the forums via Tapatalk, I decided to leave it somewhere for two days. Just there, shut and hidden by a relative so I wouldn't go and pick it up whenever I felt like.

The first day was kind of strange, since I am a music addict and was feeling like I really needed the iPod, but anyway the day passed by. I tried to fill in the empty (in fact, quiet) time with some reading or drawing: I was also trying to avoid the PC and the TV as much as I was able to because of the worry about my eyesight.

The next day (yesterday) I decided to take an eye test and the optician told me I had perfect vision, but I should be careful on being too much time at the computer. And yesterday was pretty much the same as the other day, no iPod and few time at ToS. Reading books and trying to get some work done.

So I finally decided to bring it back to its place: my coat's right inside pocket. When I picked it up, with its screen black, I said myself "Hey, was just this what I'd been missing all these days?". It was like a shiny stone, cold. I hadn't had any need of it anymore.

Anyway I turned it on once again and put the headphones back to my ears.

So, what can I say?

I feel we can make a living without most of the things we use in our day-by-day. 50 years ago nobody used a computer at their work, and now is a must. And (at least here, in Spain) when the first TV emissions were made and until late 60's, there were only two channels that offered six hours a day of TV.

I think we can do without all these screens and machines we use everyday.

Well, perhaps not all of them.

But most of them.