NAT

     Today it would be almost impossible for someone to think about living with NAT!  I think most of the current generation has never had to live with NAT during their entire lifetime!  What am I talking about?  NAT is No Advancements in Technology!  Would you consider what that would mean?  First problem I would have is none of you would be able to read this blog because there would be NO computers, NO electricity, and NO internet!  The very thought is probably enough to give you great chills and a very uneasy disposition.  You would want to text your friends and tell them how deeply upset you were.  Wait!  There would be NO cell phones for you to text them on.  You would have to resort to “calling” them on a “land line”.  But that would also be impossible because there would be NO telephones.  Now what could you possibly do?  We would actually have to “force” ourselves to get out of our pajamas and drive over to our friends’ houses (one at a time) and “talk” to them face-to-face!  Here again we run into a problem:  With NO advances in technology we would probably have NO automobiles.  Could you see yourself “walking” to ALL your friends’ homes EVERY time you wanted to share the most “up-do-date” information with them?  “Stubbed my toe.”  “Finished my make-up.”  “Mom wants me to throw the trash.”  This life would quickly become unbearable to live with.  What are we ever going to do?

      For me, I guess I’m going to hang out in my room, watch my favorite television program,  and eat ice cream ALL afternoon.  Where is my mind?  There are NO television programs to watch.  The television has never been developed.  My kids used to think I was crazy when I’d want to watch an old science fiction movie, like Metropolis, and they found out it was in “black ‘n white” NOT in color!  That was like THE worst thing you could try to get them to sit through.  But, I bet after having to live with NAT they would surprisingly welcome the chance to watch such a program.  Almost forgot:  You can forget about that big bowl of ice cream too.  NO freezer!  Of course, I guess I could try and find the “old” ice cream maker that we had to churn by hand!

     It seems that we usually don’t give any of the “modern” day developments much of a thought as long as they are available to us and are working fine.  But for the slightest moment let us be without them and you’ll never hear the end!

     We lose track, so to speak, about really how “effortlessly” we can get things done today.  And I never even mentioned such things as airplanes, washers, dryers, microwave ovens, the electric light bulb, the gasoline engine, and many, MANY other things.  Why don’t you sit down some quiet afternoon with a lonely pen and paper and write about what you would really miss and WHY if you had to live with NAT!  And maybe you’d want to consider how long it would take you to go “stark raving MAD!”

                        QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

                                     "Give up your pride and

          you will be much happier."