1. Technical Support calls "YOU" for help.
2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say LOL out loud.
3. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out."
4. You had to get a second phone line so you can call Pizza Hut for dinner.
5. You don't know where the time has gone.
6. Your husband (wife) complains that you're moving your fingers in your sleep instead of talking.
7. Your kids are eating cereal morning, noon and night.
8. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night to check email when your husband (wife) is asleep.
9. You find yourself lying to others about your time online.
10. You'd rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth that you've been online all night.
11. Your dog leaves you. Your husband (wife) threatens to leave you.
12. You've even gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face-to-face.
13. You have a map on the wall with lots of red pins to mark where people are you have met.
14. You bring a bag lunch and a cooler to the computer (and lots of chocolate).
15. You go through "withdrawal" if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours (doesn't everyone?).
16. You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you've your first cup of coffee (well, what else do you do while you wait on the coffee?).
17. Your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have had.
18. You get up at 2 a.m. to go to the bathroom but turn on the computer instead.
19. You stop typing whole words and use things like brb, dunno and :-)
20. You type faster than you think.
21. You actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.
22. You dream in "text" ( with graphics).
23. You double click your TV remote (LOL).
24. You check your E-mail and forget you have real mail (email is more fun than real mail).
25. You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to "check your mail" (who has time to cook?).
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
