Confessions of a Technology Gadget Addict

Hello - My name is Leah - and I'm a new technology gadget addict - HI LEAH - it's been five seconds since I have drooled over a new technology gadget.  I have yet again fallen off the wagon of technology soberdom (it's not a word but it works)

So what, you may ask, has dethroned me from my main stream sober day to day existence of peaceful non gadget driven (yeah right) - Ah yes that new and glorious IPhone 4g and the beautifulness they call the IPad and the new HTC HD2 (but not the Windows mobile version the long promised Google version) and the new Android Froyo (2.2 I think) that I am DESPERATELY waiting for because my poor phone (which is mind you a whole 2 months old to me and 5 months old to the market) is soooooooo lacking with it's only 1.5 Android system and and and...........

Being a technology gadget addict is truly EXHAUSTING!!!  Every time you turn the corner, page, channel, etc., there is something new, inventive and exciting turning all us addicts in to drooly mindless zombies wandering aimlessly until we have that little piece of heaven in our hands.

Now, as a side note, I'd like to say I am still sans Iphone (any version) Ipad, HTC HD2 and Android Froyo, but of course not for my lack of trying.  All these gadgets are regretfully too contract driven (I really don't like AT&T and they don't like me, but that's a long story from a long time ago) and or way to expensive for this lady.  There is a large financial discrepency from what I have to what I'd like to have (as a grown up I will of course realize why none of these things are needed and are no longer desired cause I'm a grown up now), so until future endeavours prove fruitful, plentiful and much better paid, I, with some of my other financially strapped tecno gadget addicts will wait, not so patiently, while remaining slightly drooling zombies wandering sort of aimlessly in our affordable tecno gadget lives.  Perhaps a new electronicly flashing bib from my favorite niche stores thinkgeek.com...

That's all.....stay tuned for a rant on another additiction of mine....bags.  To have them or not to have them is NEVER the question :-)

Respect for ourselves and others.

"Men are respectable only as they respect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are those in this world who treat others with such disrespect-on a regular basis- it amazes me.  Whether it is the person who serves you your coffee in the morning or the person who signs your paycheck, everyone out there deserves to be respected for who they are, what they do and simply for being. 

Human beings are amazing creatures who have time and again adapted to their surroundings striving to make a better world/life for future generations.  When we treat each other with anything less then common decency and respect we do a great disservice not only to ourselves but to the world around us.

I am not a perfect person in any sense of the word, but I do try every day to make sure that I am considerate and respectful to others.  I falter, I screw up, I blow up, but I always try.

There are so many people out there today who don't try.  Who can't see past their own nose and forget that there are others in the world who rely on them and who THEY rely on, and yet, at every turn, they disrespect those very people because they don't know any better.

And I'm sorry but the excuse that "they don't know any better" doesn't wash either.  EVERYONE knows better.  I realize that respect is not necessarily something that is inherent - and is at times "earned"- but I believe that we all have it.  That common decency and respect aren't just words just to be thrown around by some who claim to have lofty ideals, and who in practice fall so very very short.

Saying what you mean and meaning what you say are just words unless you respect others and HAVE the respect of others.  Without the respect, they are, just completely empty meaningless words.

That's all.