connected

connected

There is more than one idea going through my mind right now so bear with me. The idea of being connected can mean many things. One can be connected in business, connected with themself, know someone through someone, can have an afinity with another, there are so many connotations of "being connected". Are you connected to your feelings? to your spiritual self? is your cell phone connected? is your internet connected?

Lately I am hearing this word a lot and it made me think about my own "connections". Am I connected to myself? what am I missing? am I operating at a lower level? why is it that all the people I know that are "spiritual" seem to be crazy.

Ok, yes I am cut off, I am devoid of something but I am thinking of this as a good thing. Maybe my crazy spiritual friends are right about some things. The other connections I am thinking about are interpersonal. Through techonolgy the internet and cell phones we can be in touch with a lot of people. I think it has become so many that we hardly have time for anything anyway so the chance you will see the people on your phone is unlikely. I mean look through your phone. Tell me if you even remember the names on it? Ok, maybe Its me but I do not re-call who many of the names are and many I do have I am not going to call anyway. Yeah, I am not going to call a lot of these numbers I should delete them. Than if keeping in touch with text messaging, voice mail which I Hate voice mail, talking, you have the emails. How many people I am in touch with…dunno 40-50? from my travels, or friends around the world, than you have sites like Myspace, flickr, friendster, and the people you know from there, and to top it off you can be on AIM, messenger,google chat, and yahoo. When I was younger I did not need to be in touch with so many people, I did not meet anonymous women, or feel the need to talk on the phone as I went to the supermarket, and now thats all we are doing. communicating non-stop!

I feel distracted by all this technology. Its messing with my innner harmony, my chi, my balance, my level of consciousness. At times I thinks its wonderful on many levels but enslaving in others. I know walkmans are not new but the ipod has complely tuned out people (have you rode the L?), than if not the ipod the cell phone, why do we suddenly need to call people all the time? to leave them a voice mail?

We are so connected but so unconnected that is what I am seeing. I am going to heed what I am hearing and connect within, right after I write some emails.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 29th, 2005