Friday, January 22, 2010
Perspective
I'm reminded tonight of how very lucky I am. As I read my new RSS feed and learn all sorts of new things to apply to my teaching, the people of Haiti fight to survive. All of the things that I've come to take for granted--my laptop, my Internet connection, my television--are all things that most Haitians didn't have even before disaster struck. And so the next time I'm compelled to be frustrated because I don't understand a new technology or because I'm feeling overwhelmed by all of the digital world's possibilities, I hope I will choose instead to be grateful for such privileged problems.
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I know what you mean about circumstances in Haiti. On a bit more mundane level, when my Internet connection or some other technology is acting up I sometimes (too rarely) stop and remember the world in which I grew up which didn't even have ubiquitous access to photocopying! Now I'm upset if I can't instantly find and pull up a copy of a journal article published in 1946 in some obscure journal ;-)
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