Letting go

Last week at work I was deeply impacted by an observation I made at work. Death and dying is a natural part of my work, but something about two of our cases impacted me more than I have been before. The first case is a person whose life was instantly changed and the second has been a progressive loss. I really don't know what's worse. Seeing someone slowing being taken away by their own body, having that person disappear? The pro's and con's of both can be endless. My opinion is that this is fueled by fear of having life end well. In my experience everyone, no matter of after life beliefs, wants a peaceful end with all loose ends or damaged relationships content. I hope that these two families found meaning or peace in the situation that they was presented to them.

Informationism

I wouldn't say that I'm overtaken by electronics, but this morning I did notice something about how integrated technology is in my life. Every facet of my life has some sort of electronic based device. The odd thing I noticed is that it feels almost unnatural to not be around technology. Since when is my phone a natural part of me? I suppose this is because almost from my moment of existence it has been a part of my life, so to me it is natural in a sense.

I have nothing against it really. I do not think we need to be completely organic or that electronics are the tools of the devil. I do however wonder what impact it will have on the way we live our lives. I recently saw an article that said technology has had a major impact on shyness. They said that research has shown that now when people are in a public setting they are avoiding interacting with people by escaping into their iphone, ipod, zune?(not likely, but I didn't want to single out apple), etc.. Don't most of these devices claim to bring more people together?

In my opinion the key is balance. I think technology is great at allowing millions of people to share ideas and experiences so easily. I also think that people lose out on a great part of life when they don't get to have the interesting experiences that life can provide, but would rather tweet their every move.

Maybe I'll leave the phone at home today on my run

I have begun!

This will be short and sweet. I wanted to start getting some thoughts out there. Mostly for me I suppose. I enjoy reading other peoples thoughts in their blogs and what not, so I thought I'd try my hand at it. I want to write and document the events and subsequent thoughts of my life and faith. Amost nothing in lifeseems to be truely original. What does happen is that people will make connections through similar experiences. Thats what this is to me. Nothing profound. Just thoughts that someone, somewhere has had before while exploring what we as people are even doing here.

Nate