random thoughts

i was watching a movie yesterday called me and orson welles. it was not a very good movie, slow moving and all, but it made me want to live in 1937. i know thats a specific year, but okay too early in the 1930's and im facing the worst of the great depression and i dont know much about the 1940's. the movie was based in 1937. imagine living in a time where your social life included only face to face conversations, live theatre productions were entertainment and the local paper was where all news came from. type writers typed document, mail was delivered only by the post man, with stamps and most likely hand written. their lives seemed to lack complexity - when really i think it may have been completely the opposite, lacking simplicity.

i hate technology and i love technology. i guess its a love-hate relationship. technology seems to make everything simple but due to the absence of perfection, technology highly complicates life also. the convenience of having email and saving the second messenger is counteracted by the common occurrence of miscommunication (because emails lack expression, tone and personality). oh and did i mention complete lack of face-to-face social interaction which as humans, we need. storing everything onto a compact electronic machine, lol or laptop, although saving storage space and trees is actually fairly risky - computer failure is way too common. and cell phones! i can't imagine living without my blackberry but at the same time i absolutely hate that i depend on it. i used to remember the phone numbers of people i commonly called, now i enter a number in my phone and never make an attempt at memorization. i probably can't even match a number to a person, sad as it may be. another thing i hate is how facebook and twitter are must haves! invitations to events, communication with distant friends and/or classmates is all done using these social networks.

but think about it.. how often do we stress out about technology related things, whether it be phone bills, not receiving texts, missing an episode of your favourite tv show, someone tagging you in an embarrassing photo, or an assignment not sending to your professor properly. do you think life was easier back then? it may have lacked some of the stress we have today, but it lacked convenience. nonetheless, i kind of wish i lived back then. i wish i received written letters not emails, face to face conversations instead of phone calls, i wish we watched plays on stages not films on screens and ate meals without tv shows on. i wish everyone walked around the cities instead of taking cars, and had photo albums on shelves in their rooms rather than photo albums on facebook. dont get me wrong, im grateful for what i have, i was just thinking.