I am one of those people who are neither against Facebook, or technology, Internet or any progress as such. However, this is the third time in my life that I deactivated my FB account and I have to admit that once again I like it very much. Why?
Seven days ago I deactivated my Facebook account. Since then I managed to visit a friend in Vojvodina whom I haven't seen in a year, I started writing texts for this blog and managed successfully to have my neck locked, visited a doctor and at least started to deal with a problem that I have been having in a long time.
Today's lives are abundant with the outside impulses that we, whether we want it or not, respond to. And such impulses are on the rise, especially the digital ones. And it is often that because of these impulses and our conscious or unconscious reactions to them we do not have time to ask ourselves what is exactly what we need and thus we become more and more alienated from our essence.
Photo: people socializing
Twitter? I have been there, too... A little over a year. And you can read many interesting things there, so many wonderful, smart, funny, creative and literate people to follow. However, these wonderful, smart, creative and funny people are constantly being attacked by the so-called haters, or, as one business contact used to call them "the moaners", because in the country of Serbia it is well known that everyone needs to have their own opinion about everything, and if this opinion is not negative, some wouldn't count it as an opinion at all, so the "moaners" have the urge to shed their negativity over these wonderful different thoughts that they have read about. And these wonderful, creative people are not immune to this, they respond back with negativity, or an unnecessary fight bursts, because of some misunderstandings. And then you witness how some people raise their rating in the Twitter world in some "dirty" ways. And, at one point, you realize that Twitter resembles all those social phenomena that you know exist, but try to avoid in order to preserve your own inner peace and sanity, so I made the decision to remove myself from this world, not by deactivating and later reactivating the account, but committing, as my good friend described, digital suicide.
And I cannot say I am against Twitter either, it can be very interesting. I still visit it from time to time, to have good laughs, to learn about a lot of new things, and when I feel the splash of negativity, I just leave.
And these mobile phones... How many times were you called in the middle of a creative flow and interrupted the inspiration that started making creations on its own, or in the middle of a good movie scene which gives you exultation, or while reading a phenomenal part of the book, or in the middle of a job that you urgently need to finish, or in the middle of an inspiring and a good quality conversation with a dear someone? Do you also feel the frustration when interrupted in the middle of wonderful, mind-blowing, inspirational feelings?
And TV... You stare at the screen and realize that you have spent several hours of your time in semi-hypnotized mode, and only 10% of that time (where did I get this percentage from?!) or less you have actually been learning something new, or, to be more precise - something good and useful for you. If you feel fulfilled after you turn the TV off, great, it has been good for you, but if you feel the emptiness, it is a sign you have wasted your time.
In simple words, human is a being of response, and modern age is full of these reaction inducers and on a daily basis we let ourselves be attacked by these inducers which didn't even exist in the history of mankind up until modern age, and of course frustration or dissatisfaction are incited and we do not even have time to think through and explain and define why, because we are being swamped by new impulses.
Why am I babbling about this? Well, currently, I am enjoying the benefits of the reduced digital presence and I have the need to spread this wisdom :). And as a reminder to myself when I "expose" myself again - to minimize those outer impulses to an optimal dosage and be more present in the real reality and be there more for both myself and people I love.
Choose your own outer impulses, whenever you can.
Seven days ago I deactivated my Facebook account. Since then I managed to visit a friend in Vojvodina whom I haven't seen in a year, I started writing texts for this blog and managed successfully to have my neck locked, visited a doctor and at least started to deal with a problem that I have been having in a long time.
Photo: people socializing
And these mobile phones... How many times were you called in the middle of a creative flow and interrupted the inspiration that started making creations on its own, or in the middle of a good movie scene which gives you exultation, or while reading a phenomenal part of the book, or in the middle of a job that you urgently need to finish, or in the middle of an inspiring and a good quality conversation with a dear someone? Do you also feel the frustration when interrupted in the middle of wonderful, mind-blowing, inspirational feelings?
And TV... You stare at the screen and realize that you have spent several hours of your time in semi-hypnotized mode, and only 10% of that time (where did I get this percentage from?!) or less you have actually been learning something new, or, to be more precise - something good and useful for you. If you feel fulfilled after you turn the TV off, great, it has been good for you, but if you feel the emptiness, it is a sign you have wasted your time.
In simple words, human is a being of response, and modern age is full of these reaction inducers and on a daily basis we let ourselves be attacked by these inducers which didn't even exist in the history of mankind up until modern age, and of course frustration or dissatisfaction are incited and we do not even have time to think through and explain and define why, because we are being swamped by new impulses.
Choose your own outer impulses, whenever you can.
