Reliance

Just like you dear reader, there was a time when I lived without computers, without internet access, without my favourite websites. It was even a time before blogging came along to civilise the planet.

In those long ago days, how did we fill our time? I can hardly remember.

Anyway, that was then but this is now. Nowadays we seem to rely upon computer access for almost everything. It's where we read the news, watch videos, communicate with friends and family, go shopping, study reviews, find pictures, read maps, plan journeys, do banking, pay bills, blog and blog and blog  and find out about Pete Best. Pete Best - who was he you ask?

Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; born 24 November 1941) is a British 

retired musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. 

He was dismissed shortly before the band attained global fame and 

is one of several people referred to as a fifth Beatle.

I could have easily asked something else, anything else but Pete Best came to mind. What a story he might have had to tell if Ringo had never been born.

Sometimes it seems as if you can find out anything, everything via the internet and it has become an integral part of most people's lives.

Last night, I was tapping away here in the internet when I suddenly lost my wifi connection. There seemed to be no reason for this to happen. In fact I was in the middle of making my scathing blogpost about  G.I.Joe/Action Man Pete Hegseth. Perhaps Google had detected this and outed me like a bunch of ICE agents dragging a brown person from a building.

I felt a little lost such is my reliance upon this magical internet connection. It was not the first time it had happened but in the past some straightforward jiggerypokery upon the keyboard or with the router has quickly restored the connection.  However, this time round I was not able to get reconnected until earlier this evening when investigating the functionality of the little USB wireless adapter device that I have plugged in to one of the ports on my desktop computer.

For some unknown reason, this ingenious aid had malfunctioned but thankfully restoration was simple. What a delight and a relief it was to again see the tiny triangular internet connected symbol in the corner of my screen. The Great Yorkshire Pudding was back in the game! Whoo-hoo!

Synonyms of reliance are dependence, assurance, faith and trust. It is as if I have come to really need the internet in my life. Maybe you feel that too.  It has become our rock, our touchstone, our guide, our sounding board. I do not really like admitting this but without the internet we are utterly lost, floundering around in the darkness as we must have been before.