Aren’t You Glad There is Internet?

Here are just some interesting thoughts about life online:

1. Aren’t you glad you don’t have to feel so alone and lonely now since Internet chatting came along?
2. Aren’t you glad you now have a medium for creative expression and intellectual interaction? Almost everyone has become an artist or a writer just by using simple graphic tools and word processors.
3. Aren’t you glad people send you funny jokes, photos or videos that really make you laugh?
4. Aren’t you glad there is YouTube where you can watch old clips of the Beatles, Monkees, Rolling Stones and other bands (or listen to any music for that matter)? We are able to relive our youth more easily now.
5. Aren’t you glad you can read the news online and give feedback immediately if you want to? Good for our health because we don’t have to harbor strong emotions for so long!
6. Aren’t you glad you can have jam sessions with friends in LA and Australia simultaneously with just a little time delay and still have so much fun together?
7. Aren’t you glad there’s Yahoo! to remind you (and others, of course) it’s your birthday?
8. Aren’t you glad you can talk to people across the globe and exchange photos, files and songs in the comfort of your room? Beats watching a movie where we sit beside people and never even talking to them.
9. Aren’t you glad you can read about archeology or medicine online for a night and learn as much as, if not more than, you can learn from a semester of college lectures? The only distraction to such studying is the Internet itself -- that is, if you happen to be chatting or browsing at the same time.
10. Aren’t you glad wi-fi connectivity allows you to bring your pc wherever you want to inside the house or almost anywhere outside of it? Like the car which is the home’s extension (where you can eat, drink and even sleep), the laptop is the brain’s portable extension (which allows us to think more efficiently, to create or produce more swiftly and freely, to be entertained more widely and vicariously, to communicate more instantly and to grow more as a person multi-dimensionally).
11. Aren’t you glad there is the digital camera which allows you to store memories more economically and more efficiently? No more excuses about not remembering when, where and with whom you spent your last birthday or not knowing what your children or your friends did during a vacation in San Francisco or Boracay?
12. Aren’t you glad you can learn about the latest happening about a person or a family and get to see pictures within a day or two? Perhaps, no one is born now without somebody from a foreign country not knowing about it or seeing his/her photo. Everyone has become a world-wide celebrity even at birth!
13. Aren’t you glad you can buy almost anything online and have it delivered to you in a matter of days?
14. Aren’t you glad your children can play games on the PC while you also play your own games? Not always that good for the health or the family as a whole but it sure helps you to relax at times.
15. Aren’t you glad lives are blessed and transformed through the inspiring stories and useful articles being passed around via email? Used to be that we needed pastors and counselors to achieve that, if we felt we needed it, which we usually never did.
16. Aren’t you glad you can open up or even expound your ideas to unseen or faceless people as openly as you want to without having to go through the discomfort of an engaged conversation or a formal speech?
17. Aren’t you glad that God is more talked about now online than ever before when people didn’t even dare talk about Him outside the church?

Do you think God Himself is glad we are getting closer to becoming a truly, harmonious and interconnected family? Ultimately, how we use our time, our talents and our resources -- with or without technology’s help -- will determine the destiny of humanity.

Enjoy the sight and sound of a morning rainbow, the sea, the sky and the chorus of the wind, waves and pebbles right now!