Have you ever answered the telephone and gotten an answering machine?

More often then not, in today's ever increasing world of technology a computer simulated voice will answer your telephone call.

It is a fact that answering machines and message managers are quickly becoming the norm rather then the exception.

Should we accept this form of change? Perhaps we should be demanding a return to the time when a pleasant human voice could be heard saying, “Hello, how can I help you today?”

In a perfect world, maintaining the comfortable, the familiar and the routine is good but it is also very boring.

I think change is wonderful. Every one of us should welcome change; accept it and embrace it. Change such as that which is occurring in the telecommunications industry will proceed regardless of our bickering and our complaining. We must simply accept it.

I believe we should accept all forms of change - change that does not interfere with or take away from those human rights guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Our Editor:
Mr. Garry Leyte

Dear Editor:

Please print my letter in the Time on The Line newspaper.

It is very appalling in a world where technological advancement, creativity and hope being the mode of each day, that we, the members of this widespread universe, presents such great difficulty to change. To say that we are set in culture and rooted in beliefs would be dripping the water from the iceberg. To imagine a world in which thoughts and ideas, both physical and emotional, were all the same would give a very dark and dull existence.

To up the scale and add the beauty I, for one, love a world where one's right to be one's self is allowed. It's good to have our authority figures, those who uphold the laws of our land, but let us be ourselves.

An important philosophy in life is: “You only live once. So enjoy it.” I, myself, feel that I live in a beautiful province where variation in nature far outweigh its population. I am proud of my culture and to sum it up, the words of an old folk song does justice to our quality of life.

These words are highly echoed in the memory of Joan Morrisey, in her Newfoundland tributes, especially in the song: There's no price tags on the doors in Newfoundland.