Maneuvering through space and time

Does anyone remember the Star Trek the Next Generation episode where Georgi was trying to save the Enterprise from radiation exposure? One of the things that stuck in my mind this week is when he tried unsuccessfully to avoid the risk of fatal exposure by running the Enterprise through some trial runs. In about half the runs, time ran out and the ship was exposed. I have been feeling lately that I've been reliving that episode in my own life. Unfortunately there are no trial runs in life. You have to maneuver the best you can through a morass of choices hoping that you make the right one.

I know I have questioned my choices recently. I see that sometimes it's not easy to know what the right choice is. The best you can do is pray for guidance. The worst you can do is go off half-cocked and just wing it. Some advocate that method, telling you to go for it. There is a cost for everything you do, and being deliberate about what you're going to do next is prudent and wise. Much like Georgi did during that episode, you must take the issue at all angles before making a decision. Then you need to let go. You can't hang onto the problem or it will overtake you. I especially like the end of that episode when the solution was to shut the computer down and let the "master" take over.

I do fear that we are increasingly becoming too dependent on computers and its resulting technology to run our lives for us. We expect things to do what we expect them to do, and we want things instantaneously.. What we haven't yet realized is that there is an enormous cost involved when we let the computers run our lives. Sure technology is great. I wouldn't be able to post this without it. I believe however that there will come a time that we will regret the hold technology has over us. I've already seen that regret in the faces of those disenfranchised that have been cut off from the world.