CAN'T SEE STRAIGHT

I've got that whole 'so-tired-I-can't-see-straight' thing again. It's no good this. I can't seem to focus on the screen in front of me.

You're going to tell me that that's not normal in a moment, aren't you? Like they did when I mentioned about the coloured fringe I sometimes see in the dark. Oh you know the one: the thing that looks a bit like a patterned carpet but all different colours in the corner of your eye when the lights go out...

Anyway, back to today's malady. The words are there on the page; I just can't fix them down, as though my eyes are trying to look through them while they jump about.

You know what this means? It means it's definitely time for a Screen-Free Saturday. Seriously, I can't recommend it highly enough. Switch off your devices, go outside, stand in the rain, sit in a coffee shop and listen to people talking. Then on Sunday morning, switch everything back on if you have to, and be glad you missed the drama.

That's what social media is - a drama, where all the characters are people you know and all the story lines intertwine in the messy bulletin of your newsfeed. It's hard work scrolling through it all, figuring out how you feel, how you want to feel and what you should do in response. And every bit of hard work needs a bit of sabbath at the end of it.

By the way, I got an email today which started with...

Hi, %%FIRST_NAME%%, Your views are important to us...

Clearly.

Switch it all off! Worry about it some other time; enjoy life without it for a while, at least for a day.

Oh and look after your eyesight. That's what I need to do too.