Finding Yourself In The Digital Age Of Conflict
Happiness is not easy to find in today’s digital age. With so many electronic devices to numb ourselves with it can be easy to stop growing and learning like we’re designed to. It can be easy to wander off course and forget where we left our hopes and dreams. Watch the news for two hours straight and you can end up feeling like all hope is lost. Yet we all can find ourselves regardless of the conflict we find around us.
Numbing your life with electronics is akin to giving the ATV tires a good kick but opting to stay behind for the actual ride. We all want the freedom of the ride but we don’t always want to put in the effort of swinging our leg over the seat and climbing on for it.
Every day we get to choose the direction in which our life takes. We can try to make money online or we can stay with what feels safer despite the low pay. We can embrace spiritual growth as fast as we can disown it. We can move away from our family drama just as fast as we can choose to accept our family’s flaws.
Just like when we gear up for another digital day, complete with our laptop computer bags and our cell phones clipped securely to our hips, how much time do we put into the human effort? It’s the human effort that truly enriches our lives.
With all there is to fight through these days it is still possible to land on this side of happiness. We can all find enough balance and enough light in our day to remember why we are here. We certainly were never meant to be here to put our heads into our laptops and forget the person in the cubicle next to us. We weren’t meant to spend our lives in front of games and televisions and forget that we have loved ones who need pieces of us.
Yet when we have a moment of laughter shared with an actual person in the room with us (LOL doesn’t count) and we give a little of our own heart away we remember what happiness really means. When we volunteer and help a child, an animal, or an elderly individual we feel warmer than any electronic device could ever breathe into our souls.
Some of us have stopped caring because we are afraid of potential pain. There is more pain in the human element than there is in the electronic element. But there is happiness ten fold in the human element as well. The more we offer our hearts to each other the happier we actually become.
