iWrite Too Much

My life revolves around technology; when I say that it probably makes me sound terrible, that I can actually say that my life revolves around technology (the internet, pretty much, plus tv and other assorted first world necessities). I have the clarity to say that yes, I would be a completely different person if I had grown up 20 years earlier. Twenty years earlier than now it would be 1992, and I can just look to my parents' lives to see how I would have grown up. They would have been in their junior year of high school then; their horror stories of life having to actually talk to people face to face, or, in extreme cases, over the phone attached by a cord, tell me that I'd never be able to have the easy simplicity of simply texting my friends when I wanted to. Computers weren't really something they had, even in schools and certainly not at home. I wouldn't have just learned how to type over time and practice: I might have actually had to take a class for it. Right now, sitting in my room I have the NES and SNES that my parents played when they were in high school. As much as I love playing those, having seen the graphics for more recent video games, I'm not sure how I'd manage.

All of this sounds rather superficial when compared to the other posts made so far. I do use technology to talk to people in other countries as well, though only a few of them are related to me. I can still talk to my friend from 5th grade who currently lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thanks to Facebook, I can keep up with friends who have moved away (and who I have moved away from, though in most cases I'd be fine not keeping in touch with them). I can even talk to cousins I've never met, living in Japan (they're half-Japanese, half-American. I'm sure which half I'm related to is clear).

All of this said, I'm glad I live in the time period that I do. I'd really just prefer to live in the now. I'd much rather choose another decade to visit, rather than one to live in. That way I could always come back to the now and spend most of my weekend lazing on my butt reading fanfiction on the computer (another luxury I wouldn't have in the 1990s.)