Doing nothing is essential to finding balance in a life. Mindless using of social media etc., is not doing nothing, quite the opposite. How do you build yourself, construct your set of values, know yourself if you are constantly online, looking out instead of in? The inward contemplation that comes from spending time alone without being on a phone/device, is so important, and I fear there are many young people, say under 24, who spend no time just staring at a wall or out a window. Example, young people love to blow off anything that happened 'before my time', yet if they put down a device and investigated history they would realise the error of choosing ignorance. There! I am an old curmudgeon aren't I. No I'm not, but my perspective around personal growth in a time of IT overkill gets confused by the lack of curiosity coming from people who spend so much time on a device. Free the World!!!! :) x
Doing nothing is essential to finding balance in a life. Mindless using of social media etc., is not doing nothing, quite the opposite. How do you build yourself, construct your set of values, know yourself if you are constantly online, looking out instead of in? The inward contemplation that comes from spending time alone without being on a phone/device, is so important, and I fear there are many young people, say under 24, who spend no time just staring at a wall or out a window. Example, young people love to blow off anything that happened 'before my time', yet if they put down a device and investigated history they would realise the error of choosing ignorance. There! I am an old curmudgeon aren't I. No I'm not, but my perspective around personal growth in a time of IT overkill gets confused by the lack of curiosity coming from people who spend so much time on a device. Free the World!!!! :) x