The Top 10 Most Awesome Places on the Web!!

Okay - that was really cruel of me.

Yes, I know you clicked and got this, but there's something you should know: You and I both have a problem.

Oh - I didn't see it initially. Part of me was in denial because it seems so completely senseless, but I'm realizing that I am a sucker for any of those: "Top 15 Ways you can really mess up a blind date at a wrestling match" or "The Top 50 Space Aliens you ever want to be kidnapped by." I have no idea why I'm compelled to click on the pages -- but I'm drawn to these incredibly futile lists because maybe I want to see how MY Top 50 Space Aliens stack up against some author bunkered down in a basement in southeast Detroit.

And yet - I've been noticing a trend though lately: I don't read things in depth like I used to. Whether or not this is the "twitter" effect -- where my noggin can only handle 140 characters at a time, I don't know. But I do find myself frustrated when I have to read over 4-5 paragraphs into a story before it actually gets to the meat of things and even then I find myself disappointed because I'm like: "I wasted 2 minutes and 10 seconds for this?"

It's like the line from "The West Wing": "I only have so much RAM in my head..." and there are truly days that I feel that way...

I also think that this could a product of where society has become so hyperactive about: getting this done, writing that email, scribble off that to-do list so you can march on the next to do list, on and on and on.... We're all victims of our technology that keeps us pushing forward to getting things done as quickly as we can so that we can use that free time we have saved up for a project we kept putting off....

The cycle never ends -- but I know my mind needs a quick break from things, it doesn't want to dive into a piece that is so choreographed that it takes a lot of energy and mind-think to really grasp what the author is trying to convey. In fact, when my mind is wanting taking a quick respite from the action -- it doesn't want deep ... it wants quick, entertaining, "let's go ahead and move it along" kind of material.

Are you an addict as well?