Is it possible to find true happiness today? With our lives so connected to plugged in entities and so little human contact necessary for getting the job done, where does our inner worth end up? It’s too simple to get lost in the digital offerings at our fingertips. Online games, TV shows, and phones that think more than we do have the potential to rob us of our individuality and our humanness.
Numbing your life with electronics is akin to giving the ATV tires a good kick but opting to stay behind for the actual ride. We all want the freedom of the ride but we don’t always want to put in the effort of swinging our leg over the seat and climbing on for it.
Every day we get to choose the direction in which our life takes. We can try to make money online or we can stay with what feels safer despite the low pay. We can embrace spiritual growth as fast as we can disown it. We can move away from our family drama just as fast as we can choose to accept our family’s flaws.
Just like when we gear up for another digital day, complete with our laptop computer bags and our cell phones clipped securely to our hips, how much time do we put into the human effort? It’s the human effort that truly enriches our lives.
Where does the thought of happiness land in all of this? Where is our meaning when we live so electronically that we start to feel like we are part of the robotics department? There is someone right next to us that could use a warm smile or a friendly word. There is a balance that can be struck in order to develop more of who we are on a regular basis. Too much time in front of our various devices can tax us and help us forget that we can still be effective people in the world.
Yet when we have a moment of laughter shared with an actual person in the room with us (LOL doesn’t count) and we give a little of our own heart away we remember what happiness really means. When we volunteer and help a child, an animal, or an elderly individual we feel warmer than any electronic device could ever breathe into our souls.
Some of us have stopped caring because we are afraid of potential pain. There is more pain in the human element than there is in the electronic element. But there is happiness ten fold in the human element as well. The more we offer our hearts to each other the happier we actually become.
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