They Are Useful, But Can Happiness Be Had
I know that we speak a whole lot about mobile tech and how useful that it is. But the truth is really, if a device or service cannot bring you some job while you are using it, then chances are that you will not. So let's ask something simple, can using a mobile dvice make you happier?
According to this Yahoo article, nope (care of PDA 24/7). Mobile devices (like most other consumer articles) are designed for a finite lifetime. And designed to be out os style/old/break/not as useful if given enough time. Yes, one can via careful homework of both the mobile landscape and what is available make a choice that will lead to content (for myself, my Treo 650 really is it), but even content is not always happiness.
We know from the Word that we should learn to be content in whatsoever state that we are in. But its true that until we have refined our minds, we will be unhappy and content. For example, in this article, the person makes some valid points about smartphone adoption, but in the end, the tone and voice of the article is one of contentment but not happiness. The person has not learned to value what they have, and then draw joy in God from that. Rather, unmet expectations have clouded the value of smartphones in this writer's view (that is not to say we shouldn't have any expectation, but we should meter them to our purposes/needs, not our wants).
So I know. Some of you read this blog and the tech that is talked about and say that you want this, or it would be kool of this did that. That is fine. Just don't expect that device to make you happy, it won't. And as a matter of fact, it will hold you back from being able to be a usable vessil with that tech if you do put your happiness in it rather than in God's promise to you.
According to this Yahoo article, nope (care of PDA 24/7). Mobile devices (like most other consumer articles) are designed for a finite lifetime. And designed to be out os style/old/break/not as useful if given enough time. Yes, one can via careful homework of both the mobile landscape and what is available make a choice that will lead to content (for myself, my Treo 650 really is it), but even content is not always happiness.
We know from the Word that we should learn to be content in whatsoever state that we are in. But its true that until we have refined our minds, we will be unhappy and content. For example, in this article, the person makes some valid points about smartphone adoption, but in the end, the tone and voice of the article is one of contentment but not happiness. The person has not learned to value what they have, and then draw joy in God from that. Rather, unmet expectations have clouded the value of smartphones in this writer's view (that is not to say we shouldn't have any expectation, but we should meter them to our purposes/needs, not our wants).
So I know. Some of you read this blog and the tech that is talked about and say that you want this, or it would be kool of this did that. That is fine. Just don't expect that device to make you happy, it won't. And as a matter of fact, it will hold you back from being able to be a usable vessil with that tech if you do put your happiness in it rather than in God's promise to you.
posted by Antoine @ 7/21/2006 09:11:00 PM
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