Getting back to basics

Last night I decided to get an early night. Amidst all the Covid 19 talk, laziness and trying to assess my next steps in life I knew an early night was what I needed.

But the early night didn’t happen. Instead I laid awake in bed, understanding once again how much impact this pandemic would have in so many areas of our lives. Like a ripple effect.

Now I want the world to keep going.. I want to see it fully restored. I want everything to be set right,

But I realise, there are a few things that must take place on an individual leve for this to happen first. Humans really need to start taking responsibility for what they consume on the internet. Like anything it is apart of a diet. We haven’t really fully accepted or understood the full consequences of the content we comsume. We haven’t fully understood the effects of what the lack of fortitude can have on our minds, lives and relationships.

From Snapchat, to Tik Tok, to Instagram to Facebook. We have thousands of distractions on a day to day basis. We feel disconnected if we are not apart of it. Yet by everything we see, the amount of information, misinformation, personal opinions that are laid out before us it becomes so easy for us to forget which content is for mere entertainment, what is just making us worse human beings, and what is actually feeding the soul.

Growing up I loved books, good movies and great stories. I loved time spent with friends and loved ones and I didn’t see much point in reading the young girl “13” magazines. I guess I had a taste for quality over quantity.

So I request, I pray even, that in these dark times that you see the truth of what turning constantly towards the internet can do, and how it influences your decisions, the friends you make and the grand plan that is and was always designed specifically for you.

You do not have to compete, you are enough and people who get to know you in real life are the blessed ones.

Having said all that, I doubt we will really get rid of it. Or get to a world where technology doesn’t exist. But like anything we have to learn how to harness its use and how to use it in a way that actually serves us our lives.

Imagine a world where we use our iPad only to read the morning paper (because it’s gonna save millions of trees). Imagine a world where you can create an amazing piece of music and share it with others instantly. Imagine using our technology for listening to our favourite songs instantly, and also discovering new ones. I hope to see a world where I may be able to actually write film reviews and go to the movies again. But till Then I will await this storm to pass.

And imagine it for those simple things and for those things only. And in our real, true lives we can get back to being the sacred and divine beings that we are.

So how do we know what is right to follow and what isn’t. There really isn’t a one size fits all answer. But somewhere deep down, we can all feel that warmth, that story, that video. The thing that is ours, and nobody elses.