it’s better not to get too attached.

The electronics I’ve brought to the Holy Land are slowly decaying.  First, it was the battery for my Mac, which conveniently died when I got to Israel, the closest thing to a store being an idea of constructing one in Tel Aviv.  Even if there were one nearby, I doubt I could afford to do anything except sit at the ‘Genius Bar’ and look pretty.  Yesterday, it was my digital camera.  It was a cheap model I bought at Target a little over a year ago.  Before you know it, poof.  A click of the shutter and the sensor goes out.  One can easily be seduced by technology, but when it malfunctions, you realize how dependant you’ve become.  We all have histories, some past, we lived without the latest gadgets before.  How quickly we forget.

That past continues to die out.  The up-and-coming generations are already born in a high-wired world.  Those who don’t have easy access to those features of life are viewed as being “behind the times”.  I guess this isn’t new.  We just have to struggle to create a balance, myself included, between the technological world and the organic.   One thing that I’ve still been able to rely on is my film SLR and I attempt to take photos around the Arc at the Bahá’í World Centre, among other places, with some trusted friends who are probably more into photography than I am.   I wouldn’t call it a passion, but I still do it because there’s an ever-present desire to participate in some creative endevour. 

If you can’t beat technology, you may as well use it to your advantage [in a positive way of course!]