Pay Attention
What are you looking at?
What are you looking at?
Screen on, stare, screen off.
Screen on, tap, tap, screen off.
Seconds of "I just want to check my notifications" become minutes of "Just one more tweet," minutes become hours of addiction and hours become bits and pieces of life missed out on. And we cannot get them back.
We are trapped, lost within infinitely-scrolling updates of 'news' that is profoundly unimportant.
The feed is a leash, the dashboard is a cage, and life is everywhere but here.
Technology has stolen us from ourselves but we are too jaded, too pop culture-drunk, to notice.
How long before we realise that the things that should connect us are pushing us apart and robbing us of depth of feeling and the pleasure of each other?
Attention spans have become briefer than the flutter of a butterfly's wings and focus is now defined as the intermission between beeps. We skim, more than we read, chunks of information barely glanced at talk less of assimilated and contemplated.
We pick the instant gratification of an Instagram 'like' over the rest of the moment we are too busy capturing, filtering and posting to be present in.
Here’s a medal for looking up long enough to notice that your date has been there all along, waiting for you to snap out of your Snapchat binge.
We are tolerating the worst of ourselves, these unnatural beings trapped in an artificial world that is a poor substitute for human warmth and physical presence.
Clap for the ones who can 'multitask', juggling analogue dialogue with digital dialogue and a cup of coffee, tasting all but savouring none.
If life is meant to be enjoyed, and I believe it is, we will need to disconnect to find the connections which will bring us joy.
Or Heaven forbid, we will become shells, just forms hiding cavities that echo with the depressing sounds of shallowness, loneliness and an acute lack of fulfillment.
A Inspiring article taken from -
https://medium.com/personal-growth/pay-attention-944ccf6c2f32
