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Right. And my father is a viola addict.

2007-06-06 10:52:40

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by vadim_t (324782) on Thursday December 14, @10:05AM (#17236628)

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Now really. Of course I wouldn't like being without internet access for several

days, for the simple reason that a large part of my life is related to it

somehow. With no internet I'd lose contact with many people, would find it much

harder to find documentation for some of the work I do, etc.

But isn't every specialist that way? I bet that my father would also feel

uncomfortable if he couldn't play the viola for a few days. For me, the main

theme in my life is internet and computers. For others it's a musical

instrument, drawing, playing soccer, etc. Everybody feels uncomfortable when

they're unable to do their favourite activity for a while.

Even for "normal" people with no obsession with anything in particular it still

works that way. When somebody's car breaks they're often grumpy while it's

being fixed, as all of a sudden their freedom of movement got drastically

reduced.

There probably are people with serious problems, but I think most of the people

don't have any addiction of any sort, they simply became dependent on it, like

many people depend on their car or telephone. For them it just became an

indispensable tool.