Do we actually always have to adapt to the local customs to make life a little bit more ……. And here I start wondering why we do the things we do when we are in “Rome”. Yes, over the years while traveling this planet I have adapted and changed my ways to either fit in or not run the risk of what ever guidelines told me could be out there.
Lately I found that not only in rome but even at home we apply this rule to just basically avoid taking the extra step. We have become lazy in our efforts towards normal everyday life.
Why not take the initiative, when you want to know more or get on to the next step? Thank you social media or whatever app you are. We can google or check you online, or find advice when we ourselves know no more about the item we are wondering about. Instead of judging for ourselves if a person matches our wishes, the restaurant has an amazing cook we rely on others to do the work for us. We become more and more a victim of reviews blogs and looking (stereotypically) at pictures and judge within seconds if it matches our wish list. Personal interaction to the minimum, is it because we want safety? This from one of the most insecure places on the planet, the internet. Sure we are not all rich enough to travel around the globe to buy this item in Japan or find this amazing boyfriend in Texas, what happened to the next village or town just a cheap bus ride away? Has the grass on the other side of the fence truly become so much greener lately?
For my cooking addiction I also use the net to find ingredients from other countries, simply because in my country not everything is available or thanks to the government it is 4 times the price it should be. And yes I also communicate with people from all over the globe, luckily most of them are colleagues and now friends I used to work with and consider the internet, email as a true gift. Still not a big skype fan but it seems to be growing on me.
While visiting my friends here in Poland I noticed how dependable one has become to being connected to the electronic highway…… me included…. I was just checking the news at home, my emails, why I wonder, I am on a little vacation, if it is important I still have my phone with me to receive the emergency calls. The addiction has grown on me and became a behavior. Can I say I am still happy I can sometimes go without being connected when ever I want, I think the answer is yes. I do remember the whatsapp messages if I do not respond within a certain amount of time, I do not have my mobile glued to my hips all the time. Sorry guys sometimes is am just a man, laying in the sun enjoying some music and living in his fantasy…. I am even more addicted to daydreaming, for that is the world where I can drive the car I want, live in the city of my dreams and are happily married with 2.4 kids (that was the average last time I checked, raises the question what do you do with a 0.4 kid?). it can be just me, but I like my mentally drifting moments….. thanks to the music and some headphones I can be somewhere else completely. Even I have to be grateful for modern day electronics. An app a day keeps the boredom away. Although I have difficulties to feel absolutely bored, I still have enough to do, be it little or big things, I have to plan moments of coordinated nothing time.
Even now in a few minutes spare time while on vacation I feel the need to write and thanks to a connection I can blog and post, well there is an app for it and “addicted” as I am, but for now it is time to finish grab a shower and go for luch with some more friends, to nurish some more personal moments.
