In the modern word, people migrate toward areas with wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, to try to stay plugged in. They sit, hot coffee at hand, for hours on end in cafes with signs proclaiming to be wireless hotspots. But some people have the opposite reaction to the wireless movement. Instead of seeking out the freedom to log on anywhere, anytime, they run away. “If I walk into a room or building that has Wi-Fi, my most immediate sign is that the front of my right thigh goes numb,” said Arthur Firstenberg, 57, of Santa Fe, N.M. “If I don’t leave, I’ll get short of breath, chest pains and the numbness will spread.”
Firstenberg is one of a small group of people who believe they have Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), a condition in which they are highly sensitive to electromagnetic fields and experience pain or other symptoms when they encounter them. People with electromagnetic hypersensitivity claim to experience a variety of non-specific symptoms, including headache, fatigue, nausea, burning and itchy skin, and muscle aches. These symptoms are subjective and vary between individuals, which makes the condition difficult to study. “There are those who believe that the various and sundry electronic devices have these magnetic waves that affect the nervous system,” said Dr. James Toole, professor of neurology and public health sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. But experts are divided about the validity of such claims.
An Interview With God
With my newly acquired title as a journalist, I decided to strike a high note.
“Come in,” God said to me, “so, you would like to interview Me?”“If you have the time,” I said.He smiled and said: “My time is called eternity and is enough to do everything; what questions do you have in mind to ask me?”
“None that are new to you. What’s the one thing that surprises you most about mankind?”
He answered: “That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.
“That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.
“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future.
“That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived…”
His hands took mine and we were silent. After a long period, I said, “May I ask you another question?”
He replied with a smile.
“As a Father, what would you ask your children to do for the new year?”
“To learn that they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it takes years to build trust, and a few seconds to destroy it.
“To learn that what is most valuable is not what they have in their lives, but who they have in their lives.
“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. There will be others better or worse than they are.“To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.“To learn that they should control their attitudes, otherwise their attitudes will control them.
“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.
“To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.
“To learn that there are persons that love them dearly, but simply do not know how to show their feelings.
“To learn that money can buy everything but happiness.
“To learn that while at times they may be entitled to be upset, that does not give them the right to upset those around them.
“To learn that great dreams do not require great wings, but a landing gear to achieve.
“To learn that true friends are scarce, he/she who has found one has found a true treasure.
“To learn that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by others, but that they forgive themselves.
“To learn that they are masters of what they keep to themselves and slaves of what they say.
“To learn that they shall reap what they plant; if they plant gossip they will harvest intrigues, if they plant love they will harvest happiness.
“To learn that true happiness is not to achieve their goals but to learn to be satisfied with what they already achieved.
“To learn that happiness is a decision. They decide to be happy with what they are and have, or die from envy and jealousy of what they lack.
“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see something totally different.
“To learn that those who are honest with themselves without considering the consequences go far in life.
“To learn that even though they may think they have nothing to give, when a friend cries with them, they find the strength to appease the pain.
“To learn that by trying to hold on to loved ones, they very quickly push them away; and by letting go of those they love, they will be side by side forever.”An Unknown Author…
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