I have realized just how bad technology has taken away the meaningful relationships I once enjoyed. Today I traveled on a bus ride with a friend who sat right next to me for over an hour. While we journeyed, we talked and laughed. And When it was time to be silent, we became. The moments we shared were simple, and they were real.
Recently I decided to take a break from facebooking. And even though I have only been away from it for a week, it feels like a life time. I felt the urge many a time to go back and reactivate my account; to reconnect with the ones who have helped to keep me in touch with the happenings across the globe these many months I have been away from home. I miss that. Already.
Yet, as much as I like to occasionally indulge in the easy accessibility of modern innovation and the expediency with which its pleasures can be gratified, I also happen to be a lamp in the woods, book on a pillow kind of guy. And occasionally I find comfort when I immerse my thoughts in the shadows that pool on the floor and walls of my still candle lit room.
Having thought through these, I guess it is a state of constant confusion we most often find ourselves reveling in. For in trying to chase one thing we most often end up losing another; and the little line that marks the point of balance becomes blurred by the illusions we create - sometimes out of a hope we have built on a false foundation. Sometimes we taper off, sometimes we fall.
Confused is where I was. Now I'm just trying to find my balance. I can't live with losing that.
