Disconnect Through Disco-Tech

I've slept with a fan for as long as I can remember. For reasons seemingly unknown to me I can't describe the way that silence makes me feel. In so many ways I have felt like silence sometimes feels suffocating.

Flashback: I secretly hated slumber parties when I was in grade school. It was a blast until one by one we began to quiet down and lull off to sleep. I slept terribly at slumber parties because often the silence was too much for me to handle. I felt like every movement even a toe that I moved to get comfortable, the rustling in the silence disturbed everyone. So instead, I would lay there until I feel asleep from exhaustion. Often waking up early and not wanting to move but wishing everyone would wake up.

As long as there is something to muffle the sounds interrupting the silence, things are fine. But the silence can be deafening especially when you're in the back country. I use ear plugs... Not only because my tent mate snores but also because it "feels to quiet". More and more we plug things into our ears with white noise, ear plugs, music buds and head phones.

Silence is actually extremely beneficial. We have just become so used to filling this seemingly silent void with noise to distract ourselves from what is really needed... Rest. We become restless because of lack of rest... Because we do not disconnect ourselves from the everyday things that bring meaningless busyness to our lives. Through these situations competition is slowly born and grown into our culture that then breeds social disconnect through Disco-tech.I heard a song recently that seemingly expresses a millennial stepping out of the comforts and the conformity of perceived notion of what it means to be young and "connected". Alessia Cara- Here

More and more many people, millennials and non millennials alike are falling into social media competition addiction. Again Social disconnect through Disco-tech. Our fake selves being put on for an evening out, spending time making these costumes perfect while people are dieing inside, exhausted seeking to find rest while drowning out the silence of own personal judgement of a quiet night in alone seems like failure or unpopularity.

How often do we check our social media and feel that withdraw and fear of missing something so important like a status update or an amazing Instagram of art created in an underlying matter of secret "one-ups" and the quality of the post with per-determined words and hashtags?

Where has inspiration gone? Where has personal relationship gone? Where has silence and peace gone?

Here are a few articles in relation to things that not only I have noticed but indeed others are beginning to take a stand to what it means to be socially accepted, connected or distracted, disconnected and completely blinded by the world.

Is too Much Social Media Use Bad for Teen Health?- By Talal Al-Khat

How much is too much?- By Molly Kimball

An 18- Year- Old Instagram Star Says Her "Perfect Life" Was Actually Making Her Miserable- By Stephanie McNeal

Put your phone down, Close your laptop, put the cover on your ipad, take the buds and head phones out of your ears and get outside or sit in a comfy chair. Go for a walk, run, bike ride, stare at a tree (I've done it, it's awesome!) Feel the wind and be content in the silence that has been given. Don't worry about status updates, or catching a photo of the view your looking at to share with others of how you're "disconnecting"... Disconnect from the thought process of needing to connect!

Just be...

"Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."- Psalm 46:10





-Keep Adventuring.







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