Taking off the internet

[photo by son, age 6]

"Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive....By using our attention we learned a whole reality, a whole dream." — Don Miquel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

Still January 6, 2009

There has been a sense that I was in touch with the wrong people, people I should not be having contact with — not necessarily because they were unhealthy alliances, although some were perhaps at times. But because they are not the people who are right here, right now, or important enough (family, friends) to warrant the amount of time spent corresponding.
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Realizing that as far back as my mothering.com days — and what a godsend that was when the boys were very little — that the presence of in many ways the ‘perfect’ online community had the unintended effect of making me less appreciative of the people right there. Back then life right here, right now was at times feeling unbearable.
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Taking off the internet has been like taking off the wrong glasses. Here I am.