In the age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in the age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in the age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still.
Technologe brings our life into a new stage of century. Everything is rising faster and faster. And it means to be used by saving time. But why we still feel lack of time, even more than before? What we lost when we are all rushing into the entire new age?
In this complete fast going world, we work longer, spending more time on social network instead of being with friends and family in real life. I can’t belive technology is actually cutting off the connection between people. It’s hard to feel the surroundings with all your heart. And certainly, most of us, including me, read people’s life through something called Internet, something called fackbook, wechat comment and other social apps. It, however, is huge waste of time. Because I don’t need to read people’s life but join it.
This is not the first time I feel that my life is going faster than I can be with. We all do. Since last year, while I was rushing into the future, all I heard in my head is noisy, the noisy from outside world. I was the most anxious,emotional painful than I ever felt, which brought me to the hell. I was crying a few times a day. without any reason. Everything that is happening can be the trigger to make me cry. My life was such a mess. I lost the inner peace. I lost the balance between inside and outside. There was nothing I can do to save my life until I went maditating again. What I found out is that the more I was emotional uncomfortable, the more concentrated I can be.
Maditating is slowing me down and preventing me from rushing into the furture. Technologe dose excellent work by improving work efficiency if it’s used correctly. However, it also bring us the side effects of life. What technologe hasn’t always given us is a sense of how to wisest use of technology. In return, it perhaps makes you more tired, confused instead.
This world is much more powerful, infomative. We all go too fast and want to take advantage of it. But on the other hand, it costs more on real personal life. It’s hard to keep peace inside, that’s also exactly what outside world make us suffer by. Maybe the only way to keep ourselves, our sprits, survive from it is slowing down, feeling things around you with all your heart. The smile of people, the sounds of laughing, the sensation of touching things, and the feeling when you hug people etc.
Meditation ,for me, is not only about sitting down. When you do something with 100% concentration. You are being the present, you are meditating. It’s hard to explain how it changed me. And I’m still trying. But it works. It works well.