Magnifying and observing

We are the internet age where we cannot do a simple task without proclaiming it on the internet. We find tasks of adulthood so fascinating that we reward ourselves immediately by updating our social media.

And what do we get after that? Nothing. We are observing our tasks more than we do them. We are busy observing and imagining their outcome.

Today I dealt with some mold in my bathroom and all I could think of was what I’ll tweet about it once I’m done.

“I fixed the mold problem in my bathroom. I wonder where people declared about their mundane day to day activities before internet.”

Amazing right? But the problem is that I am magnifying a very stupid thing. I’m magnifying the 'idea' of me doing my task as opposed to focusing on actually doing it.

Like we magnify the idea we are on a vacation instead of being on a vacation by pasting it all over the internet.

Photos and videos are for you to enjoy the memory of you at a place, instead we use it as a tool to enhance the 'idea' of us on the internet.

I know I sound like a cranky old person (which I’m not). But, that honestly is how it is.

We are wasting our time by magnifying the nonsense in our life.

I was listening to a little bit of Alan Watts today and he said how people who are in complete Zen are those who are go getters. Those who just get up and do a task. But they are not hasty or impulsive. They just do it. And it made so much sense.

A couple of years ago, when I did not have to consume so much screen time I was always in the possession of a blank mind. I never waited to do things, I just did them. I did procrastinate a little. But I worked out more often, I got up got breakfast by myself. And never ever did I stop reading a book after just 15 pages.

Inside me was Zen. But now that jobs demand I be in front of the mean machine, I find it a bit difficult.

Lately though I’ve seen some minor improvements and I hope I progress further ahead and maybe get an amazing job that lets me amass legitimate wealth without consuming a lot of screen time and have a balanced life.

Until then, I would just observe my observing of social media madness. And watch how people are portraying (including me) the idea of themselves out there and desperately holding on to it.

Like it wasn’t enough we did that on a daily basis on offline mode to actual people. But, now it has become an industry.