Life electric

There have been a few issues with Hive-powered services today, with the chain playing up a little, but it seems to be getting sorted out. I notice that I get a little frustrated when these kinds of things happen, but it is not just here, it is when the router needs to be reset, or there is a pause in the livestream I am watching.

The "bane" of the modern world is having so much of our lives delivered on-demand, that many of us suffer from a lack of patience. This is further frustrated by having so much always available to consume at such a rate, that we have also grown accustomed to trawling through tweets, episodes, YouTube videos, Insta-posts, TikToks and all the other largely useless bits of random information that do not further our personal progression.

One of my friends the other day was saying how he is being more mindful of the way he uses his phone, as he notices himself automatically diving in at every possible space and tuning out of life. I am sure he is not the only one who does this and I have found myself reaching for my own phone too often also, setting me to do much the same and look to limit my interaction in an attempt to break the addiction.

One of the things that has become somewhat of a theme among my close friends since my stroke, is that many of them are taking the second-hand experience as a cue to evaluate their own lives and how they interact with the world. It has been interesting to be part of and I do feel a part of it, as they all ask questions that point toward where their head is at.

Some who have money issues have been talking more openly about their struggles and how they are trying to get their finances in better shape. Some who have been working diligently for years are looking to take some time, relax, spend more on the things they value - and they are driving discussions toward what may or may not be valuable. And, a lot of people are thinking about the relationships they have with the people around them and are looking to connect more.

Near death experiences have an effect on more than the person who experiences it directly and it splashes out and across the network. In many ways, it is like a trickle-down process, where people start to question their own mortality with those closest, diving the deepest into their reflections.

What has often come up in conversation has centered around personal habits and how many struggle to break them. A couple people have mentioned how they feel compelled to act a certain way and when I mentioned the idea of a "robotic life" they nod their heads and say, it is like being on auto-pilot. So much of our consumer life is this way, where we are given a cue, and our priming and conditioning kicks in to react, without thought, on intuition alone.

We are told to trust our intuition without considering that our intuition is a learned behavior, taught to us through repetition and training. From childhood we are told what is important to focus on, what is necessary to accomplish, what we are expected to have. Like Pavlov's dog, the bell rings and we start metaphorically salivating, chasing after what we have been told we have to catch, in an endless game with an endless supply of new balls thrown just past our reach, making us chase some more.

What is interesting is that while people are evaluating their lives, many realize that they are not really living a life, as they are making very few choices for themselves, as everything is a trigger designed to evoke an engineered response.

We think we are living, while we act like robots and it is never more obvious when their are glitches in the system and we lose power. Power that was never ours, it was always rented.

Our chance to live, may be when the lights go out.

Taraz
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