Basking Brooks

Experience the moment

“Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.”  - Yoko Ono

We presently live in a world, where we open the screens of laptops and smart-phones, but, close the doors of our life. People have become more isolated and their hearts, turned into desolate islands, where emotions and liveliness are not heard of. Priorities have shifted and we no longer remain the caring, loving and ‘living’ human beings.

Social media has evolved into a powerful faceless ruler of this modern globalized community of people. It has escalated into an electronic epidemic. Taking selfies and pictures and going to great extent to make them unique and at their best, and then posting them on website and wait for likes and comments, like an idiot staring into the screen. People nowadays are not so much interested in paying a visit to someone’s house and spend actual quality time with dear ones. Instead, they create a group in messaging applications, simply chat, and call that ‘spending time together’.

Often, we hear almost everyone say, ‘I’m busy; I’m in a hurry’ but, reality is that there’s no need for such a rush. The Earth has been spinning for billions of years, and still, it takes twenty-four hours for a day. How could we possibly say we do not have any time? Isn’t that a brutal lie?

Technology had made us all lazy, under the name of comfort and development. There are certainly good things from the technological advancements. But, when we look at the other side, we are losing really important treasures of human life, like, experiencing the moment and living in it. We always do two things: feel and get caught up in the past; wonder and worry about the future. We forget about the power that we possess in our hands right now, in the ‘present time’. ‘This moment’ is only in our hands.

We must start living by relishing every ounce of experience from the present. Life is really a short period of time and we are wasting it by simply doing things that doesn’t even matter at all. Waking up in the face of smartphone, and ending the day also with smartphone, taking it even to the bathroom and using it while eating too. Is this supposed to mean development?

Helping parents do their chores; helping siblings with their home works; chatting in real life and having dinner together; spending time with friends and not looking at the phone for a single moment, but, gathering all types of joyful experiences; lending a helping hand to the needy; admiring nature and taking steps to save it from today’s pollution; reading a good book and getting lost in it are some of the things that prove our worth of living our life to the fullest on this planet.

We have made our lives really tedious and complex and lifeless. Time for contemplation, realizing the meaning for one’s life and about oneself, had become a lost cause. We must stop now and change our thinking so that good things begin to shape up our future in a sustained manner.