on unplugging.

I've recently been feeling the need to unplug from all things internet. It's not that I'm an active poster or absolutely addicted but i'm starting to feel like i need to escape into my own, pure thoughts for a while.

I just downed a glass of mediocre wine.Thoughts are feeling looser now.

I've been teetering on the edge of wanting to give up networking for a bit - three days, a week, two weeks, a month and just work flat out. Photograph instead of share. But maybe sharing is part of how my creativity functions - can i really train myself to be creative in a way i'm not used to being creative? I wonder about how not being connected will affect me.I just need some space.

You know when things just point you in a certain direction? The other day I downloaded a TED talk by Sherry Turkle called "Connected, but alone?" where she discusses the whole us using social networking as a method of escaping ever having to be truly alone - having nobody to listen to our every thought (or at least the ones we want to put out there on the interwebs). I didn't get the watch the whole thing as it turns out I have this thing called a class that eats away at all my TED viewing time. The very important thing to notice is that talk spoke to me in a way that I'd never heard that perspective before - possibly because I've never really listened all that hard.

So, that was point one and then, later, while I was having my contemplative stroll I, blasting the 'new' Florence album, when All This And Heaven started playing and we just *connected* and suddenly in that space I was in the lyrics and I found some common ground and now I find myself waiting for that third sign.

Things come in threes and then I'll quit the habit for a while.

Give myself a break.