Dearest facebook can you please release your grip on me for the next week, I really must work hard and write some essays. I will be ever so grateful and promise to devote lots of time to you once they have been handed in...
I posted this to my status this morning. Has it helped? Not a great deal but everytime I visit my profile I do get a pang of guilt and log off. The trouble is I don't tend to visit my actual profile page very often and the live feeds on my home page make it impossible for my guilt to be invoked forcing me to abandon the facebook bandwagon.
If I am completely truthful I should write one of these for nearly every single thing I use on the internet from Twitter to blogs to emails, even the google wave and farm have been benefiting from my procrastination surrounding my assignments!
This tangent time led me to the blog of Alastair Creelman and his post on being bored. It made me think, we do spend so much time doing and not doing but do we ever have empty time? Time to just sit and daydream? I know that I have lots of time that I would class as empty time but I am also aware of the fact that I do not appreciate it enough.
Now for the link to my studies, and there is one, when do we give children this time? Do we teach them how to switch off and do nothing? Should we? Surely it is essential for their creative development not to mention their personal development. Being able to have bored time, would that give children the skills to deal with stress now and in the future?
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