Technology is NOT my friend!

     It's Sunday, so here comes a little preaching.
     Technology pretends to be my friend. It holds itself out with all the sparkly, shiny, flashy, new, exciting and wonderful updates that come along almost by the minute. And when I reach out and try to embrace this friend, it dances back out of reach and mocks me. For example, I was trying to add some music to Mrs. Penguins' ipod yesterday. There was a bunch of music on her ipod, including downloads, that wasn't showing in the library on our computer. I spent hours trying to figure it out, only to give up in frustration. Today, it's ALL there in the library, but her ipod wouldn't work. Fortunately, that was easily resolved. But still, the fact of the matter is that I spent many hours trying to do something that could have been better spent.
     I think we all have so-called friends in our lives like this, whether they be technology, the internet, our "friends" or hobbies, or whatever else fits the description. They hold out this illusion that if we spend more time with them, spend more money on them, dedicate more of our precious resources to them, that we will some how end up improved for having been with them. And when we do, we often find ourselves in the position I found myself yesterday; frustrated, behind on accomplishing what I should have been doing, and no better off for having spent the time and effort. My attitude was poorer, my interactions with those around me curtailed or dampened because of my divided attention. Who needs friends like that? Remember the devil himself pretends to be "an angel of light," so that he can pull us away from who we are supposed to be and what we are supposed to be doing.
     I saw recently where several of my friends on FB mentioned purging their friends lists. Maybe we need to do the same, purging those so-called friends not just from our FB accounts, but from our lives. Can you do it? Can I do it? Can we purge these wasters from our lives? If not, can we at least recognize them for who they are? Can we understand that they are not our "friends," but rather aquaintainces, perhaps with whom we must interact, but not on such a scale as previously? I encourage you (and me) to try. Go for it? What do you have to lose?