The Digital Age and The Way We Interact

As technology advances we get sucked into more screen time - streaming shows, movies, gaming, social media, and online shopping. We decrease our capacity to communicate with individuals, interact, and even have constructive disagreements. We hide behind screens to state an opinion and we are reactive verses conversational when it doesn't fit our narrative. We are in the constant state of never ended thinking of "please I would rather not talk with a liver person" as you troubleshoot an issue via a computer screen. So why have lost touch with this sense of reality. Is it because we truly do not want human connection or is it because it seems easier?

My husband and I sit in the same room and sometimes I feel we are a world apart as we are both engulfed on our smart devices. Silence fills the room or the sound of the speaker on YouTube or Netflix. We spend hours looking at a screen, go to bed, and repeat the next day. So, how do we stay engaged with one another? How do we reignate passsion into our lives and get excited about reconnecting with people, society, and the community? We need to find something that we connect with outside of the screen.

Since my dad passed I've felt a little lost. Trying to find what I use to connect with. How I use to connect. I feel like I've been blaming the way I feel on other. Projecting what I can't control. People saying one thing but do another. Maybe that is why we feel that it is better to live behind a screen. Less likely of getting hurt. On the screens, we can keep emotions at arms length. We can see the good, but avoid the bad and the ugly.

I'm not sure I've figured out where my passion lies, but I've been looking at how to reconnect with who I want to be. I'm not good, but I'm getting better. I think in therapy I've learned that we are all a work in process. We make choices that make our life better or worse. We find things that make us smile and we hold on to happiness as tight as possible. So the less today is about trying to be non-judgemental. Know that everyone is going through something and without the pain, the bumps, the struggles, the let down we will never get to who we are meant to be and what we are meant to do. So, put the phone down, turn off the tv, have a real conversation with someone that makes you question everything. Reconnect with something that is real.