Somehow, I got off on a tangent yesterday when I wrote about the concept of instant communication in our current digital age.
What I wanted to accurately focus on is the (reality of the) fact that we are always in instant transmission mode and expect everyone else to fall in line with this. In the outset, it seems plausible and positive but think about it.
Our cell phones, email, Instant Messengers, home phones, text messaging, beepers, etc, have made us easily and immediately accessible. Now this may be a preferred notion for some in certain circumstances, but is this a wish we all should accept?
Especially when this idea pertains to relationships.
Is it not the unknown, mystic, unusual and different phenomenon, the perplexing curiosity, and mystery that marvels, fascinates and guides us into our attraction and wonder?
Does that not become somewhat lost in the puzzled ease with which we are instantly available at any given moment of time/place?
Should we not strive for the impartialness that comes with being disengaged and unavailable? Yes, I know for some it might raise those uncertainty and suspicion levels, but once you dig deep in the bounds of your soul isn’t this “friction†and “conflict†inside yourself not what partially attracts you to that other individual, whether they be friend or/and lover?
In this age of the immediate onslaught of a million images a second directed at our eyes, can we afford to let an additional ill factored mind mechanism compel us to become even more readily bored and disenfranchised from the reality of the mirror of ourselves as we approach the yearning of the company of others?
Maybe I will turn off my cell phone, let the email box fill up for a week, uninstall trillian and wait to witness how many people actually come check up on me in my domain.
Nice experiment.