The age of super stimuli

Anything within our reach. Fast, practical, instantaneous. Just pick up your cell phone and call, buy, rent, collect, send. We are at our peak of super stimuli, have you ever stopped to notice that we have never had so much ease in our lives? On the one hand, this is so wonderful, because we don't waste a lot of time, money and energy on banal or boring things than we did before, like spending hours in line at the bank to pay a bill. Or getting in the car and crossing the city without knowing if that person would be home to welcome us. All things considered, we have many advantages!

But at some point, we got used to it. It's normal, it's trivial, and it's commonplace. People are increasingly impatient and of course we know why. If we no longer wait for orders to arrive for months, if we order food via cell phone in seconds, if the internet comes via fiber optics, what exercise in patience are we doing? Even meditation is done on an app, which shows us our concentration time, tells us some stories and evaluates our technical evolutionary process. Why do we need to go to a yoga center to meditate then?

Experience is becoming a luxury economy. Moving around, sitting and talking, getting to know a place, turning off your smartphone, connecting with someone or something has become a rare and pleasurable activity for some people who still cultivate their patience. Who still seek true contact. It's a mix of zen-style people who pay all their bills on the bank app. People who meditate with their cell phones, but sit down to have tea on a hotel balcony in the mountains. An adventurer who seeks cinematic trails, with his powerful and technological car, where he photographs the beautiful landscape with his iPhone to disconnect from the rush of everyday life.

There are many ambiguities that are part of our current reality. We live between the search for non-negotiable values, but with the ease of modern life. And that's okay, after all, those who don't connect in some way end up losing some things along the way, such as the possibility of communicating with someone in their family who is on the other side of the world and wants to show it to the children on a video call. . We can no longer go back, we have left a box that we can no longer return to, because we have expanded and no longer fit inside it!

This conversation is common, it can be boring and boring, but it is necessary. Unfortunately, we need to consider the exaggeration of incentives and facilities. The fine line between convenience and exaggeration is visible and is knocking on our door with a warning: we are losing something along the way, and we cannot go back to pick up everything we dropped. Time is still our greatest currency and wealth, spending hours watching videos on apps and entertaining ourselves easily is a mix of dopamine and sadness. Because deep down we know that we could have experienced more and watched less. But only one person can do this and make this decision: you! Take up your hobbies again, look for physical activity, and watch good quality content. Break out of this cycle while you have time to let go of the overstimulation.