It’s 88 degrees outside, but the real feel is 94. How can this be? Do I take it easy, or do I take it hard? If I take it hard, I’m making a mistake because the smart thing would be to take it easy in all of this heat.
I think the actual temperature on a thermometer should be the real feel as if it says 88 that’s what’s real to me. So inflating the real feel six more degrees than the actual temperature doesn’t get more unreal.
Taking it easy is, generally speaking, good advice. If your temper flares, you are not taking things easy and will most likely commit an error or make a mistake, the likes of which you may seriously regret if you do or say something foolish.
I wish all of us could take it easy most of the time. Sure, I’d like to see us all take it easy 100% of the time, but I know that isn’t happening.
We used to take it easy when we were kids.
We went to the beach.
The beach is always easy.
When is spending time at the beach hard?
Seldom.
Waves crashing in winter or summer buoy the spirit and elevate the mind.
Waves rise and fall gently and also, yes, easily.
Playing softball during the morning or early afternoon is part of the easy way of living that I used to embrace.
Before computers and the Internet, the world was a simpler place.
Or was it?
Maybe it just seemed simpler.
I remember all the technology pundits weighing in on how easy life would become once computers and the internet took a stronghold and center stage in our lives.
I wasn’t drinking the Kool-Aid, as even back then, I could have sworn I was born in the show me state since I always had a healthy dose of skepticism rise whenever considering the futures predicted by others.
It turns out computers and the Internet made life easier for the wealthy.
Office worker bees did the wealthy’s bidding and produced more work in 8 hours than ever before.
The only thing that needed to be figured out once we had fast computers and a faster Internet was how often we could outproduce what we previously did.
Hard work in front of computer screens was not exactly the easy life I envisioned when reading about tech and digital life.
When did memes become a healthy respite from endless keyboarding and mousing?
I would suggest that they should never have but somehow have.
Summer in the old days also included reading paperback books. We called them paperback books because they were not hardcover books.
I remember sending postcards when I traveled out of state during the summer.
Did someone ask me what a postcard is?
Email is misinterpreted often.
So are instant messages.
So are texts.
Postcards were not as many vehicles for communications as they were feeling. You looked at the picture on one side of the postcard and read the brief missive from a friend or family member on the other. Nothing was confusing about a piece of writing that included, “The weather is here; wish you were beautiful.”
The waves still crash ceaselessly in my mind.
And they yet make life easier.
Unlike the Internet and technology.
However, I just realized I did produce this piece in record time!