Sure, none of us will ever wish to have spent more time in the office, but who think of their job as being in the office? My last job where I spent too long in the office was for a non-profit organization working on ending world hunger. Surely most people who overcommit have a good excuse? Still, it’s true that recharging the batteries is a good thing. My own reckoning is that it takes a week of being totally unplugged to get back to a zone of peace.

I think it’s why so many, me included, have found long distance flights so zenlike. You can’t be reached and even if you want to, you can’t do anything other than relax. Well, you can, but only if you are REALLY sick!

“And I bet when you do return to whatever digital thing you felt you could not leave, you wont feel so dependent on it as you did before.”

I believe that to be true as well. I’ve been spending a lot of time lately just trying to absorb the world, especially since I’m not currently employed nor actively seeking a new job. One thing I enjoy, which I believe people think I’M nuts for, is just going for REALLY long walks and then hanging out in a coffee shop reading, watching people, or having lunch with friends. After a couple months of this, I feel much less attached to the digital world.

This isn’t to say I don’t still love surfing the web, writing about whatever on my blog, and editing video or graphics. I just don’t feel like I require it.