What 40 something blog free days have done to me

I really don't think that anyone missed me but, ayam beg!

Fortunately or unfortunately (can't believe I'm using this phrase) although busy settling into our new home, I decided to abstain from blogging, blog-hopping, online chatting, facebooking and friendsterizing for this year Lent Season. I wasn't ready to let go of the Internet for the whole of the 40 days so I decided to maintain emailing (both for work and personal) and some googling. Let's face it, Internet can be addictive just like TV and the fact of the matter is, not everything we do over the net is important but somehow robs our time from doing other important things (this is me trying to protect self by saying, you know, you do it too, we all do!)

I decided to stay away from this one distraction and see how it marks my 2009 Lent. At first it was HARD but it got easier. What I realise from this whole thing is:-

1. Despite my interest in writing, I needed to prioritise my activities including my job, my family, my chores and my rest.
   
2. Facebook and Friendster is a good way to keep in touch with friends from all over the world but we don't have to know if they are having a roti canai, cappuccino or pretzel every other day or minute. Its okay to visit these accounts ever once in a while but not in on hourly basis! No one really cares if I'm having kacang putih also.
   
3. It doesn't make me less in touch with the world or the current issues by not updating myself daily with certain blogs.
   
4. Whatever I was abstaining from were not all that important and can be done at special times.
   
5. I get more sleep.
   

By that I do not mean everyone is the same but I do invite everyone to think about it. Unless it's your fulltime job is a blogger, I do think that we need a 'cleansing' path to start anew and realise that what enriches is what we HAVE to go through daily including work, family and friends.

However, now that I'm back in the game, I have a few blogs I want to catch up with and I also missed that two of my friends are pregnant, which is fine because I'm probably late to know 40 days tops! Okay, I just got back from the dessert, so I can't bombard too much with updates at one post. Til then, Happy Easter Month!