DAY 3!!!

I forgot to blog yesterday so I'm going to answer two questions today.  But before I do that I just want to say how difficult this has been.  I'm only on day 3 and I'm already loosing my cool.  Tonight's dinner is lasagna with meat sauce.  I will not be able to eat this although it is one of my favorite meals.  It seams like my family waited till this week to cook all of my favorites.  I also gave up drinking anything but water.  This is the most difficult thing to do.  

Technology both simplifies and clutters our lives.  Sometimes technology makes one aspect of our lives easier but complexes another.  Like cell phones for example.  They make it very easy to communicate with other people, however now there's texting, picture messages, and phones have the internet.  This just makes life harder because your constantly getting notifications.  And obviously there are upsides of technology.  For example medicine.  Medical technologies have made so people feel very little pain.

Many of Thoreau's themes were about getting in touch with nature and simplicity.  He also stressed that individualism was very important.