One of the things I dislike about technology is that it interferes too much with personal and family time. I am sure you are familiar with couples, friends and families, that spend most of their time interacting with their internet-enabled device of choice when they could enjoy another person's company. Coffee shops in our area are full of people that are watching movies or doing general browsing on their laptop, while sitting at a table with friends. In our home, so very often happens that we sit next to each other, holding a laptop or a phone and liking each other's Facebook status updates, whereas we can simply say "Hey, I like what you just wrote".
In an attempt to reduce our daily human-machine interaction time, my husband and I decided to include a Reading Night in our weekly schedule of activities. Since we don't have a TV at home and going out every evening is both expensive and tiring, we thought that putting some time aside for reading would be a great way to get back to something we found ourselves too busy to do lately.
The activity is very simple:
1. Get together and reduce possible distractions.
2. Read. :)
I started reading a lot when I was around 16 years old and went on for about a decade, covering many literary classics, poetry, philosophy, art, theatre, psychology and linguistics. I was buying several books every month and was immensely proud of my well-equipped home library. Unfortunately, moving around countries made it impossible for me to maintain this personal collection of books and my next resource were university and public libraries.
As part of this weekly event at our home, we also joined San Jose Public Library and spent few hours exploring the on-site resources, online catalogs and reading rooms.
At the moment, I am reading Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project. The book is a memoir of the author's personal journey to happiness by focusing on a new set of resolutions every month. Even though I am not really into this self-improvement type reads and this book hasn't really given me any new insights so far, I have to admit that it is a very nice collection of activity ideas and inspirational tips and tricks. Reading it has definitely made me happier and more resourceful. I still have three chapters to go, so I can't give a full review yet.
If you have a book to recommend, I'd love to hear from you! Happy reading :) x
In an attempt to reduce our daily human-machine interaction time, my husband and I decided to include a Reading Night in our weekly schedule of activities. Since we don't have a TV at home and going out every evening is both expensive and tiring, we thought that putting some time aside for reading would be a great way to get back to something we found ourselves too busy to do lately.
The activity is very simple:
1. Get together and reduce possible distractions.
2. Read. :)
I started reading a lot when I was around 16 years old and went on for about a decade, covering many literary classics, poetry, philosophy, art, theatre, psychology and linguistics. I was buying several books every month and was immensely proud of my well-equipped home library. Unfortunately, moving around countries made it impossible for me to maintain this personal collection of books and my next resource were university and public libraries.
As part of this weekly event at our home, we also joined San Jose Public Library and spent few hours exploring the on-site resources, online catalogs and reading rooms.
If you have a book to recommend, I'd love to hear from you! Happy reading :) x
I found your blog through Sandeep's facebook post, and absolutely loved it. You've actually got me thinking about some of the things I keep meaning to do, like spending less time hunched in front of my laptop! :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Siddhu!! :)
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