Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

There are many forces in our culture that helps create workaholic people. Twitter joins the group.

Twitter is cute, funny, silly, a waste of time, and many other things depending on who is telling you this or what you are doing at the time. Consider this one:

Twitter is yet another means of creating workaholics.

Ever hear that one? I haven’t. It hit me a couple of days ago as I was staring at Twitter waiting for it to update (seems to be much slower since that woman whose name starts with “O” joined a week or so ago).

Twitter’s subtitle is:

What are you doing?

You have to be “doing” something to report it on Twitter. Do this, do that, do something, do…do…do

How about a site where you report how you are feeling? How about a site where you report how you are being?

The emphasis on “doing” often turns into “working.” If you aren’t doing or working all the time, then … well you are less of a person.

Please remember that resting is doing something. Playing with your grandson is doing something really important. Watching you kid run around in the park is doing something really important.

Put down the tweet machine (a.k.a. cellphone) and be a loving, caring person. That is enough.