Embrace The Moment
I have to remind myself often enough to do that.
It is an easy mistake to make, to spend days, weeks, months, years or even your whole life on autopilot, disregarding the true experience.
- Be self-conscious about your feelings, your senses and your actions.
- Stop what you're doing for a few seconds, take a deep breath.
- Take as much time as you need or have to reflect.
Memories are the Past.
The Future is always at least one moment away.
All we really have is Now.
See life through your own eyes, not through a camera lens 🙈 📷
I remember when many years ago, we used to laugh about the stereotypical Asian tourists with their photo cameras, cell phones, tablet PCs and selfie sticks. They would visit the city of Salzburg for example and take pictures of everything. One picture per second, of every object, big or small, important or not. Without even looking at it in real life themselves, only seeing through the camera's lens or display. It looked stressful and not enjoyable, not what I was imagining to do on holiday, as a tourist. With the technological progress nowadays, I find this to become more and more common.
Don't get me wrong. I do like photographs, my point is a different one:
While photos can help remembering things, it is still just a memory. It can never become as vivid and exciting as it was in that one single moment in the past.
A similar example:
You're at a music concert of your favorite band but instead of enjoying the atmosphere, the feeling, the music, the cheering crowd - you're filming the whole time. Looking through the camera lens or at the cell phone display, you miss out on a big part of the unique experience.
You are here now! Make the most out of it.
Don't become an attention-slave 🙉 📴
Because your attention is the most precious thing you have in life.
Let's take a step back, how do I get to this bold statement?
Your time on this earth is limited. It is slowly running out and there is no way to get it back. So if time is the most valuable thing you have, it is even more important what you do with it. It is your decision what you focus on or who you pay attention to.
This is especially important in our today's technologically advanced society, where we can get distracted so easily. Cell phone notifications, TV ads and alike can demand our attention. We have to be self-conscious about our behavior to be able to choose how we spend our time and attention.
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know what you think about my views on this stuff.
Until next time, take care. 😊
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I have lots of technological devises that i'm using, I can't help it from not using because it is very important to my life, but despite of that i still have time each day walking outside of my house for at least 20 minutes; it refreshes my memory and loses little bit of my weight. Self reflection is very crucial into our lives we need some step back and do some realization and evaluation on how we pilot our lives. If you're piloting an airplane without maintenance on its own body, it's more likely you can't land to your destination.
Ah ... so true
I was standing today in one very busy laundry and I counted around me 15 people just looking into their phones.
Man it was like a twilight zone
Exactly, like zombies ;-)
That's a scary new but common phenomenon.
I used to go to the laundry on Saturday in London 30 years ago. Lots of interaction between strangers and friends, really interesting, too bad it's all changed
Good stuff :)
People should write more about this topic. Thank you for the value you bring. We should slow down a bit, quiet our mind, and take control of our thoughts. In today's society thoughts control us. Our mind is a powerful tool that can get us very far, but instead of using it when we need it, we become its slaves and forget to live every moment. We forgot how to connect with everything that's around us unfortunately, for connection with the whole it's what brings peace and joy in our souls.
Thank you for your opinion, I couldn't agree more.
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