Phone booth fasting

I have been fasting once a week for a few weeks, and it appears to help me have a glass of wine and/or beer without adding kilos. This week when I encountered smile lady, I decided to also fast from a negative situation, people, etc.   While I am not as much of an addict to internet and email as some, I am still more connected than I feel is in my best interest.   I have a pretty good idea of my IQ, but in reviewing my habits, I have concluded that I am not as smart as my smartphone.   

The seduction can start with a simple ping or blinking green light (which in another life said…..you’ve got mail).   I sit at dinner sometimes wishing to be dining with someone, and then look around at tables full of 2 – 3 – 4 people all with their heads down staring at a screen.   I am an with more people than most of the people in the room.  I am paying attention to what I am thinking, eating, giving my gaze to, etc.

Since I only get a phone pink from a very few people who also have phones, most of the time, it is AIS trying to promote a data package or something else I can’t read about in Thai.    The most annoying thing is when I slip into a place that I have an internet connection, such as  Blue Diamond, Pern, Mexican place, Nice Kitchen, Pub, etc.   and the screen lights up with CNN…government is shutting down, someone beat his wife, the Norwegian’s are beating the Canadian’s in curling pairs… etc.. and then at least 2-3-4 DJ did this, or his wife did that of tweedled dee and dumber – his children said this. 

  

So after careful thought, Monday will be a total fast day.  Food is easy…but communication, internet, etc. will also be on the no consume list.  I recently read that a healthy relationship with your devices is all about taking ownership of your time and making an investment in your life.   With the stock and bond market tanking… probably a good idea.

In addition to the Monday fast, I am bringing back the “phone booth.”   What this means is I will only look at or answer the phone if I am in a “booth”.   There are no booths on a walk, in a restaurant, a Wat and they don’t hold two…so in the company of others.

On Monday, I will just have to watch my breath and listen to my heart