authentic living in the digital world

Welcome to the pool of wandering minds, an endless terrain where one
can keep looking for more and more to fill up on so as to distract further from the unfulfillment of their waking life.
More attention, more content, more information, more stimulation, it's all here, a scroll and click away. Read the headline, decide its fate, and carry on with your tastes of pleasure.
You too can be that somebody, just trade in your authenticity.
Heart and soul can be a tough chew.

If you're not being entertained, you're being informed, you're being shamed, guilted, persecuted, and simultaneously being told that You Are Enough and that You Will Never Be Enough.

And this sharing, this sharing of our cluttered minds has reached such a threshold that a regurgitated meme about meditation creates more of a stirring than actually meditating.
This perpetual binging on quickies is a mirroring of how deeply malnourished the collective mind is, and how disposable even the cleverest of thought or truth is.
Plaster some new-agey wisdom on a pretty picture and it seems innocent enough, even helpful or 'healing', but what is the true cost of being fed nuggets of pure sugar for the soul?
How helpful are these 'self-help' videos, articles, memes, and counter-culture news sources?
Are they so accessible, so digestible, that it contributes to the dissatisfied minds of those who want more but are unwilling to put the work in?

Although always having been literally a step outside our doors,
more people than ever before have access to the cruciality of the health of our communities,
from the flora and fauna to the air quality,
to the human beings that reside there, just by a few eye-catching headlines on our newsfeed. We have the ability to be angry and lament about environmental impacts of actions and situations we are morally against, share amongst our friends and followers to get a rise from them too, and then we have the ability to shut it down and continue on with life as usual. Potentially riddled with a bit more guilt for not doing anything about it.

One could argue that it matters very little what content we ingest or share with others, for everyone has some form of will that ultimately dictates what content they take in, and then also what they believe is best to share on the world wide web of consciousness. It's true, it's all within us to create a digital world that adds value to humanity and the world, but that world can only be so as long as we create it in our waking lives first. The two worlds are not dividable, they mimic and parallel the other, and when our hearts and minds change, so too will the content we create.

If you're looking for connection, for inspiration, compassion, warmth, generosity, maybe try going outside first. Maybe try going within. And then, maybe bring that back to us here in the digital sphere so we too feel compelled to log-out.

My first post ~ Introduction