Passing time on the Internet

Did you ever actually just stop and think about what your doing?

I mean really.

All that time reading other people’s blogs, all that time reading other people’s webcomics. It’s wonderful that they are there. It’s amazing the talent that some people have. I find it it a bit depressing really. Especially when I glance at the clock and realise I’ve just laughed an hour of my life away.

Of course, Laughter is good for the soul. It’s good for the body. You could probably google yourself a few hundred articles on why you should laugh once a day. Don’t. Don’t touch that search-box. Don’t do anything.

Ever considered that all that time you’ve just spent might be a waste? The feeling steals over me every now and again. All those things that I think that I really should learn to do, that are on my life’s to-do list.

Learn to play the guitar.
Learn to play the harmonica better,
Pay attention to my Fiance
Get this blog up and running so that it bring in more visitors, perhaps makes me some money.
Draw more Anime
Research Christian Literature
Finish off my Litestep Theme
Re-Compile and improve Enlightenment.

What do I do instead? I open a browser and hit that stumble button, and away I go onto the internet.

I watch my life disopear in a myriad of zeros and ones. In pretty hypertext.

There was once a program on T.V. called W.D.Y, or Why Don’t You. It advocated turning the television off and do something else. Perhaps what we need is something like for the web. Something that advocates actually doing something with your life, rather than hiding in the electronic vastness that is the internet.

Perhaps I will make a deal with myself. A personal timetable. One that says that I will only spend an hour “wasting time” on the Internet.

You never know, perhaps I will keep it. You never know, Perhaps you will.

Black Xanthus