The Internet As A Library Is Open – Our Cellphones & Laptops Are Fully Opened, But Our Minds Are Half-Closed! Let’s Learn Manna From Dennis The Menace

Looking at the Internet as an enemy, here are “7 Lessons From 100 Things We've Lost To The Internet By Pamela Paul” (Denish Shastri, Medium, medium.com):

1. The Value of Deep Focus
2. The Importance of Boredom
3. The Loss of Face-to-Face Interactions
4. The Erosion of Privacy
5. The Decline of Reading for Pleasure
6. The Shift in Cultural Knowledge
7. The Need for Digital Detox.

“These lessons encourage readers to reflect on their relationship with technology and to seek a more balanced, fulfilling life that values genuine experiences and connections.”

No! Ms Pamela is looking at the Internet as enemy, not ally. As a writer, I look at the Internet as the best thing that ever happened to creative writing!

See: Either (1) The Internet floods you with thoughts and you drown. Or,
(2) The Internet floods you with thoughts and you swim!

In short, the Internet is a medium as well as source of choice.

Above image shared by Jenta Reeds 02 Oct 2024: Dennis the Menace says, “C’mon, Joey. If you wanna see a rainbow, you gotta put up with a little rain” (Facebook sharing 06 Oct 2024). Dennis is teaching you the rain is not a menace!

“No, it’s not the Internet, not the rain – it’s the way you look at things.”

I do not worry about any of the 7 in Jenta Reed’s negative list from Pamela Paul! If you don’t get out of your negative thoughts, you’ll ever be hardly-creative.

For much creativity, you have to learn the “Po Technique” of Edward De Bono – that’s in his book The Mechanism Of Mind (1933). I’m happily lucky that I have a copy of that which my Pacifica Publicity Bureau copywriter friend Orli Ochosa (+) gifted me some 50 years ago. With Po, I learned to cultivate a positive or two from even the negative thoughts! How to do that? How: To cultivate a creative mind, do not immediately reject any bad thought – you examine it for possibilities; you look beyond the negative and see what might be lurking there! Try it sometime.

Po is how I never run out of ideas to write about. Note that I started blogging in 2000, when I was already 60 years old. I just turned 84, and I have blogged at least 50,000 essays in the last 24 years. [Just an example: If you visit one of my blogs, “Communication For Development Of Vibrant Villages, blogspot.com, you can see a list of 1,108 essays published since March 2019 (I do have several blogs)].

You cannot run out of ideas to write about if you have an open mind!

If you look at the Internet as an enemy – it becomes your enemy! You have to be more intelligent than that, brainier, wiser, more understanding, more astute, more forgiving.

"The Internet has made it easier to access information, but it has also made it harder to access our own thoughts." Negative!@517