Slowing Down

Today's New York Times includes an article about turning off the electronic equipment once a week to slow down time. Being unplugged is harder to do than ever before. I know people who check their email every 15 minutes on their Blackberry--now that's just obsessive. I think the new trendy thing will be not how much you do, but how much free time you have to relax. If more people just said no to things, then they wouldn't be so busy, and they wouldn't be depressed that they have no free time, and they wouldn't have to visit their therapist, and they'd be happier--ok, this might be an oversimplification, but I think it works.