You know who’s underappreciated? The Amish.
We don’t really hear enough about them, do we? Or maybe you do, and I’m just the one that’s out of the loop.
Isn’t the Handmaid’s Tale about the Amish? I’ve only seen one episode, but that’s the gist that I got.
Even so, I’d like to think that I got a piece of that Amish life over the past day or so.
This is probably way different than what the Amish have to deal with, but it’s the only comparison I can currently think of.
So bear with me, friends.
After enjoying what felt like one of the hottest days on this planet (which is every day here in Florida), my roommates and I walked in to find that the WiFi in our house was not working. I know what you’re all thinking. We immediately begin to panic, right?
Surprisingly no.
It’s happened before, and we know that the WiFi usually comes back on within a couple of hours. Since we’re all adults, or at least trying to be, we all have unlimited data on our phones so turning off the WiFi until it’s fixed doesn’t seem like it’ll be an issue, right?
WRONG.
If you’re like me and you have Sprint, you know that service doesn’t work ANYWHERE. And “anywhere” does happen to include my house in this situation. If my mom calls me (yes I promise people other than Kristal call me), I have to turn my WiFi off just to be able to make sure that the call doesn’t drop.
Even though nobody had been talking to me all day, of course as soon as the Wifi goes out, I suddenly become the most popular person on this planet. I could see that I was getting tagged in Golden Girls memes on Facebook, snapchats responding to the semi-thirst trap I had just posted on my story, and getting my fourth text message of the day. Or was it the fifth?
Either way, I was getting notifications that I couldn’t respond to, and this is how I know that technology has ruined me.
Whenever I was sitting down in the living room with my best friends, want to know what we talked about for the first 30 minutes that we were together? Nothing!
We couldn’t watch New Girl for the 6th time, and we couldn’t turn on Bob’s Burgers (for me to force my friends to watch my favorite 5 episodes over and over again), so apparently we had nothing to talk about.
We sat in silence, while playing Animal Crossing of course. Is this what the Amish have to do? Do they actually have to speak to each other?
What madness!
Though I am slightly exaggerating, it was definitely different being forced to enjoy either’s company instead of laughing over the same jokes on TV that we watch every day. My friends and I eventually got into a groove of talking to each other, but at what cost?
My roommate couldn’t handle not being able to watch TV (since we don’t have cable…not the best choice in this situation) so he dropped everything and went to Redbox to rent movies to watch to get him through the night. Smart man!
I immediately remembered that before I started buying everything on digital (clearly a mistake now), I did buy DVD’s. But, you know what I didn’t buy?
A DVD player.
*insert facepalm right here*
So right this very second, I am being forced to watch DVD’s (Horrible Bosses, Crazy, Stupid, Love and Black Panther to be exact) on my computer screen because APPARENTLY my Mac doesn’t have an HDMI port.
Apple keeps taking away vital parts of their devices, and what do I keep doing?
I keep buying more of their devices! It’s a vicious cycle that must stop.
Anyway… as of right now, our WiFi has not been fixed so we are all in our rooms right now trying to find something to pass the time. I think we’re all secretly hoping that when we wake up tomorrow, it’ll magically come back on.
Fingers crossed, friends because I can’t handle this Amish lifestyle for much longer.
Organized Chaos 