Solitude and Technology

After dinner, I usually spend some time with myself on my favorite rocking chair with my eyes closed, going deep in thoughts where there is no place for my work. That was ‘me time’. Today, while sitting alone, and checking my Instagram I came across one of my friend’s photo. He was celebrating his birthday in Bali with his family. That took me to a mixed reaction of happiness and sadness. My work had cost me my family time.

I still feel an absence of something in my life. My business has been well established in these passing years. I have achieved a lot from the list that I had created before starting. The list included all the necessary things for a happy life. But even today, these achievements are not able to provide me that inner peace and satisfaction.

I thought of writing those feelings and sharing them with you all. Many of you might agree with what I am going to write.

The passing decades have given us the gift of several new technologies that have made our life way easier than we had ever thought of. We are just a click away from anything that we wish to do. The biggest development of all times is the mobile phone which connects us to the outer world in all possible ways and social media being one of them. Even when we are alone, it keeps us surrounded by millions. Our developing interest in the number of counts of likes on our uploads instead of the count of minutes that we spend with our loved ones has made our life more public than personal.

Social media influences our opinions deeply through different ways where our brain perceives  the received  information in various ways and processes them into different  thoughts.

Their happiness makes us happy. Their problems make us sad. We get a feeling of despair if we read something bad happening in our society.

Solitary time requires self-analysis which is mandatory for self-growth and making ourselves better each day. So, now I have decided to spend some time with my own thoughts, listen to my inner soul, take out time for my family, my books, and my creativity.