Unplug

When was the last time you TRULY unplugged? No internet, no phone, no streaming TV? Was it by choice? How long was it for, a few hours? A week? A month? What did it feel like at each stage? Did you feel the phantom buzz of a notification in your pocket even when your phone wasn’t there? Does unplugging, or the thought of unplugging, bring feelings of anxiety? When you consider doing this, do  you think of all of the reasons you CAN’T unplug? Maybe it is work related, or fear of missing a life-threatening notification, of missing an important event. It can be wild to imagine that we were ever able to manage all of these things WITHOUT being plugged in, and that in fact, in many ways, being unplugged kept us MORE connected than we are today.  We live in a time where information is coming at us ALL the time without reprieve. Surprisingly, this is nothing new. There is a massive amount of signals being sent by nature to us all the time, and it is through communicating with this information