Tumblina, five stars for your confession to gadget addiction. Do not fret, we are here to help you break the chains of social programming and go free of the shackle around your wrist.
“I wear my watch because I always wear my watch and I feel awkward without it.”
Simple case of failing to try hiking without it. There is a large number of hikers today who are enslaved by cellphones, blackberries (whatever that is), portable computers with internet hookup (called IPods or cellphones with internet or something), so they can log into internet and receive instructions from Big Brother while in the forest. These poor fools will never have a wilderness experience, any more than the fool who brings along a wireless television.
“It’s habit.”
It’s an addiction. The best solution is to go cold turkey.
“But if my watch weren’t there, every time I flipped a glance I’d have a mini panic attack wondering why my watch wasn’t there, where I’d left it, do I need to turn around and find it. Dependent? Neurotic?”
Classical symptoms of psychological addiction. Also indicative moral weakness and lack of resolve.
“I leave other jewelery on while hiking, although none of it serves any practical purpose.”
If you wear jewelry I assume you’re female, in which case the jewelry may serve the practical purpose of enhancing your attractiveness to the opposite sex. Nothing like that type of exercise to releive tension while on a hike."
“I’m simply more at ease with these items than without them. For no logical reason, they reduce my worry. I’d spend more time thinking about my watch if I left it at home.”
No you won’t. You are a prisoner of fear and mental maggots stuck in your brain like ticks in your flesh. Declare your resolve, straighten your spine, flip your timepice off and step into the woods a free person.
Sundial
