What is it that gives us surcease, and the ability to "recharge", even for a brief moment, before re-entering the timeless world that the digital era has delivered to us?
I think it's time to drop back into those poems we all studied in school, from the Romantic Age. You know, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron...they were reminding us then that Nature was the path to self-discovery, and authentic experience, and they were reacting to the Industrial Revolution.
The Information Age may not be as messy as the Industrial, or as soul-destroying visually, but in erasing time the internet world has delivered us the platform of "always". You know, always on, always available, no off switch at all, because somewhere in the world, someone is on.
In the no time/always time world, the pressure is on to perform.
The big message is to rediscover our editing function, so that we can make sense of the raw data floating in the information sea.
One way to do this? Go outside, and "look" around you. If you're lucky enough to live on the ocean or beside a lake or a stream, then there is nothing so lovely as simply drifting in a boat, allowing wind and currents to remind us of a larger field of perception.
A brief segue into the natural world, whether observing from a park bench, or enjoying a backyard garden or drifting at sea, will restore us so we are ready for the next "alwaysness" of our new paradigm.
Your thoughts? Always welcome!
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