‘if you lost everything in a moment, would you notice?’
Patience / Patients.
Bear with me, I’m trying to write this but I have seven other tabs open that I’m flicking through, and here lies the problem – a microcosm for the modern technologically savvy world we live in.
I’ve tried to become more patient with everything, not become distracted by things that will attempt to steer off course, keep on driving down the road and more importantly keeping my centre.
Keeping centred was something I have learned about recently. Life and people will throw tests at your just to see how strong your confidence, will and composure are and to see if you stay true.
For example, a date I was on – I was asked a question on something, granted I’m not one to hold back on my opinion so I offered it. The girl then offered a conflicting opinion and also suggested that I should change my opinion because it differed from hers. She never saw that RKO coming…
Like life gives you, it was a test to see if I would change my mind and buckle. A test to see if I was strong enough to keep true. Girls like doing this and a billion other tests to see if you are strong willed enough and if you are centred.
Balance and Composure | keep centred.
There are so many distractions these days mainly electronic devices which now Occupy: Minds.
Have a look a Facebook for five minutes, move onto to Twitter for five minutes, flick through pictures of dogs, inspiration quotes written over pictures of mountains in the background and of course various unimpressive meals then back to Facebook. And repeat.
There are distractions on the distraction. We’re all guilty of it.
#LookUp
Whatever happened to all the things we used to do. Eating food without putting pictures of it on Social media.
Walking down the street and actually smiling and saying hello rather than nearly walking into everything because of being transfixed by Joe Bloggs’ check in on Facebook. Oh, Common Life, it has us.
Thailand is the worst place I’ve encountered for it. Looking around on the BTS and 95% have their head down staring into pixels on a screen on several inches, its a great shame it really is.
Sidenote: I personally do not understand the allure of Snapchat? …’Jesus, does anyone?’
Social media is great, but so is the world and there needs to be a Balance… & Composure. Tinder has broken the stigma that online dating was for everyone that wasn’t yourself and everyone that is ‘normal’. Everyone is on it, right? Tinder offers so much choice that people become bored with people, set up dates, start talking to someone else, don’t go on the first date arranged, arrange a date with person 2, start talking with someone else. And repeat.
Even if a date is arranged, there would be small talk for a bit. Then the pixels start storming the castle. Sharing what they’re drinking, where their drinking it and how they’re feeling – feeling amused :/.
There is so much choice that nothing is being done.
A gig too, I’ve been at gigs where people will record for ten minutes or more at a time. Take pictures and videos for sure, but to watch the gig through you’re device, nah.
It suprises me too that children as young as ten have smart phones – who a ten year old needs to text or call I don’t know. When I was ten all I needed was a sick that looked like a gun and I could kill up to a million aliens in an afternoon. A MILLION!
Its not enough that these devices are taking over our lives but they are also beginning to take over our lives.
Its great to share the odd picture or too granted, but every single thing you ever do? Keep it real.
If you have Facebook Messenger, yeah delete it.
Ever wondered how things you talk about in texts etc or search for appear as ads on Facebook.com?
It can:
– Change the state of network connectivity
-Call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Malicious apps may cost you money by making calls without your confirmation
-Send SMS messages. This may result in unexpected charges. Malicious apps may cost you money by sending messages without your confirmation
-Record audio with microphone. This permission allows the app to record audio at any time without your confirmation
-Take pictures and video with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation
-Read your phone’s call log, including data about incoming and outgoing calls. This permission allows apps to save your call log data, and malicious apps may share call log data without your knowledge
-Read data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you’ve called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals
-Access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call
The bottom line is, we have millions of humans in the palm of our hands on our devices but we are all very much alone. Nobody dances anymore and nobody seems to acknowledge of appreciate something unless its on their screen – Introducing: The Rot Under The Sun.
We’ll double tap a great picture on Instagram and stare at it for a few seconds whilst missing out on our own moment that is right in front of our eyes.
Like work and life, needing a balance between them, our virtual lives and what is actually under the sun needs a balance too.
Our personal legend our soul – whatever you want to call it has been suppressed these days. You don’t hear too much of follow your heart etc. as everyone is too concerned with the rat race, well, ‘if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat’.
Patience is key. Life is one big rat race but guess what, its a race with no winners. We’re all gonna die. Would you care much about the race if you suddenly developed a brain tumour, would you say on your deathbed ‘I’d wished I worked harder and didn’t slow down and live in the present’.
The past has gone and the future isn’t here…yet. So live in the present have patience cause I’m sure everything will end up all right. ‘to Be Yourself is all that you can do’.
I’m not a doctor, a chemist, a philosopher or an expert in anything but this is my opinion and I’m keeping centred – swipe right on reality and keep calm.
everything will be all right / the things we think we’re missing
from thunderstorms / to infinity 