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There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.
On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.
I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don't need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It's no more important or non-important than that.
In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.
