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Seems like an odd topic to write about, but recently I have realized just how much I interact with switches on a daily basis. Moving to a larger house has increase my awareness of the use of electricity. The bill can get pretty astronomical compared to what I am used to at our old place.

So now part of my daily routine is to walk from room to room checking switches and turning off electronic devices. I don’t think I have spent so much of my day on one task like this before. My kids like to leave a room with lights on and all electronics going. I have spoken to them both many times concerning the subject, but I don’t think the message is as important to them as it is to me.

This additional time spent walking through the various rooms flipping switches has giving me some time to reflect upon the act of flipping a switch. So simple it is to so physically push a lever up or down to have an opposite affect on the state on an object. I sometimes wish that flipping these switch could be done to a person.

There are times that I would like to be ale to flip a switch to turn off the pain of memory or occasion that reminds me of my past life. How easy it would be not to have to deal with those emotions by just flipping a switch. Unfortunately that is not how we are. We have to live through this pain and memories and build a better life out of them. To learn for them and try to avoid them or at least meet them with the experience that you have gained.

It’s Monday morning and I am re-reading the article and I do not think one can really avoid the pain or even if it would be healthy to. Part of living is experiencing the joy, pain, loss, and gain. So maybe instead of trying to avoid the pain it would be better to recognize and prepare for it.

Anyways I am off to search for some switches to flip.

-Jeremy


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