On technology

Nancy Colier writes an article titled Is Your Smartphone Stealing Your Life?

The most frequent complaint that I hear in my psychotherapy practice these days is that people feel estranged from their own lives, unable to enter their experience -- as if they are ghosts, floating outside the experience of life itself. Their life is happening and time is passing, but they are not exactly the ones living it, at least not directly. Our cultural disease is one of absence, as if our own presence has gone missing from life.
Read full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-colier/living-in-the-moment_b_1064626.html

Dara C. Lifschutz, M.D. writes about her Facebook hiatus.
So what have I been doing without Facebook? Meditating. Catching up on lectures. Reading. Hanging out with my nephews and niece, having conversations over bagels and cream cheese, dodging flying objects, and playing hide and seek instead of being transfixed by a computer screen or a Blackberry.

The past two days I have been reading Mesilas Yesharim. I started on Chapter 3 today and read the following.
As our Sages of blessed memory said (Bava Metzia 83b), " ` You laid down darkness and it was night' (Psalms 104:20). This refers to this world which is similar to night." How wondrous is this truthful commentary to him who concentrates upon understanding it. For the darkness of night can cause two types of errors in relation to a man's eye: it may either cover his eye so that he does not see what is before him at all, or it may deceive him so that a pillar appears to him as a man, or a man as a pillar.
Click here to read Chapter 3 and decide just how much technology should rule your life or should you rule over technology.