The Technology Monster. Rawr!

I'm starting to think that technology and the want requirement for instant gratification is turning us all into pouty, paranoid little pansies who are participating in particularly profane propaganda! *Sidenote: Alliterations turn me on*

SUFFERIN' SUCCOTASH!

Seriously though...today is one of the many days that I have emailed a friend, only to not receive a response back within what I consider, at that moment...to be sufficient amount of time. All of a sudden I turn into this defensive paranoid monster. (which might just look something like this....Rawr!)

So, I turn into this monster....emailing more and more messages I wont get responses to, automatically assuming that particular friend to be "mad" at me (or some other emotion I find less than justifiable to not respond to myyyyy E-MAIL!) ....ONLY to turn around and eventually get a response a.k.a slapped in the face with some harsh reality that they got food poisoning, their car broke down and they couldn't get to work, got their email shut off because they had to give their last rolled pennies to Progress Energy keep the lights on or something dramatic and WAY more important than returning my email message, which reads...."Hey buddy! We still on for lunch?" ::cricket, cricket::

Um...screeeeeeech. What in THEE hell is wrong with me? I cannot possibly be alone in this. Actually, I know I'm not because I've been on the receiving end of these messages a time or two and thought..."what in THEE hell is wrong with this crazy person?" Point Taken.

This example is just one of the many times and many ways this happens to us because we are SO incredibly spoiled with the return time of technology and so addicted, consumed and reliant on these "cyber" alternatives that when they fail to instantaneously please us, we turn into crazy people! Texts, e-mails, IM's, facebook chats, blackberry messenger, Google Talk, phone calls, Youtube, Tweeting about what you had for breakfast, what you will have for lunch, trying to delete your myspace page...etc, etc.

How do we keep up? How do we begin to obtain true quality of life? When do we stop just existing and start living? When do we CHOOSE to take the time to appreciate the small things, fight for equality and stand in unison when we are being taken over by faux happiness and quickly morphing into robots? These are the questions we should actually be asking ourselves.

::In best possible Robot Voice::

Stop mad.ness, love hu.man life. Take care of each oth.er. Take care of plan.et. Em.brace the be.a.uty of ex.is.ting, Be.fore we all crash and bu.rn. Than.k Y.o.u.

::End of Robot Voice::

*Cell phone rings, E-mail comes in, must check Facebook*