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So according to a recent study, happily married couples have lower blood pressure than single people and unhappily married people.

Huh? How is this a scientifically sound study? How do they know that the married people are happy or unhappy? Are they asking them? If they are, is the couple being honest? seriously.

I’m not sure that I can buy this. While I can totally buy that a happy marriage does help with health to some degree, and I’m a firm believer in things like touch therapy (no, don’t let your mind go in the gutter people). I’m not sure if I can buy that just because the blood pressure was a little lower on some couples who said they were happily married, that is sound science.

There are plenty of single people who are quite healthy and they are happy too. Being single does not mean you are not happy. I wish people would get that through their heads. While there is a kind of loneliness sometimes to it, it does not mean you’re unhappy. By on means! Ugh. Some of these scientific studies just upset me.

So what do you think? In general I agree a happy marriage is healthier, but what about happy single people?

New Scientist has run an article mentioning that technology may prove addictive. In this day and age of blackberries and ipod and iphones, are we all susceptible to the lures of technology? Do we in fact get addicted to having to use a blackberry to call or text message or email someone when we could just walk over to their desk and talk to them?

Perhaps. Technology can be a personal and impersonal thing. I think we all take it differently.

I use technology to keep up with my friends. Most of my friends are scatter across the globe, and I can’t simply go to their house and hang out. But with the internet and IM and text messaging, I can keep in touch with them. It’s not quite ideal, but it’s how we do it.

Should we also tag computer software as addicting as well? Games such as World of Warcraft and Everquest are both games that are highly addictive. Just ask anyone who’s played it. They can’t stop playing it it’s so much fun.

I’ve lost the original point of this post, but don’t let technology run your life. Set aside one day where you step away from the laptop, or step away from the blackberrry and just enjoy life. It might surprise you.

Or you’ll get very very bored.