Wednesday, May 2, 2007

The inconvenience of modern communication

Well, here's a thought. It's awfully inconvenient that I run halfway across the world and I'm still just a phone call away. Actually, I'm not. But it troubles me that I have to take the additional steps to save myself.

Wait, what else sucks? If someone writes you an email and you don't write back within a few days, you're clearly blowing them off. Back in the good ol' days -- you know, when pigeons delivered your mail -- you don't hear back from the other side of the mountain for a while. If you happened to find respite on the other side of the world (or just the other side of the world), it's yours and yours alone.

Then again, if it weren't for modern communication, would I be here in Qatar? Of course not.

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