Every day it seems as if we are constantly bombarded on so many levels, demanding our attention and time. Advertisers relentlessly seek you out through mail, computers, phones, billboards, and televisions, wanting you to consider their product(s). You get inundated at work with calls, emails, demands, issues, meetings, and so on, from clients, staff, and management, all wanting you to stop what you are working on to assist them first and foremost; all while maintaining a smile and great attitude. Home is no different. Friends and family all seek you out as well, desiring your time, voice, ear, love, attention, and affection. Everywhere you turn; there is something or someone attempting to draw you into their sphere.
Usually this quest for our attention is not a bad thing, it is just life as we know and love it to be for each of us. However, occasionally you find yourself tired of it all, where you just need a break, radio silence if you will, from everything and everyone. In an effort to obtain such silent bliss, you might have to go to extreme measures. Such as removing your profile online just to get random people that you don’t know or care to even remotely know to stop emailing, winking, and contacting you daily, by turning off your phone for long periods of time just to stop hearing it ring or vibrate, or leaving your laptop packed away to avoid emails, blogs, social networks, and online shopping sites, and even keeping the television turned off. You might even take it one step further, by taking off somewhere without telling those you love and know, just to have a few moments to think quietly and reflect on your life without everyone else providing input and insight into every challenge and aspect.
All of this silence doesn’t mean you don’t care or stop loving those around you. It certainly doesn’t mean you want to give up all the wonders that technology affords us, like our cell phones, Twitter, and Facebook. Radio silence merely indicates that even those of us who are highly social and always happy to be with others also need a moment of quiet reflection and a chance to re-organize our mind and soul. Silence anyone? I am sure you are listening.
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Usually this quest for our attention is not a bad thing, it is just life as we know and love it to be for each of us. However, occasionally you find yourself tired of it all, where you just need a break, radio silence if you will, from everything and everyone. In an effort to obtain such silent bliss, you might have to go to extreme measures. Such as removing your profile online just to get random people that you don’t know or care to even remotely know to stop emailing, winking, and contacting you daily, by turning off your phone for long periods of time just to stop hearing it ring or vibrate, or leaving your laptop packed away to avoid emails, blogs, social networks, and online shopping sites, and even keeping the television turned off. You might even take it one step further, by taking off somewhere without telling those you love and know, just to have a few moments to think quietly and reflect on your life without everyone else providing input and insight into every challenge and aspect.
All of this silence doesn’t mean you don’t care or stop loving those around you. It certainly doesn’t mean you want to give up all the wonders that technology affords us, like our cell phones, Twitter, and Facebook. Radio silence merely indicates that even those of us who are highly social and always happy to be with others also need a moment of quiet reflection and a chance to re-organize our mind and soul. Silence anyone? I am sure you are listening.
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