Globalization, through the invention of the Internet, has led to the rapid sharing of information, seamlessly and instantly through social media websites such as Facebook, myspace, twitter, digg, etc. This has led us to a age I refer to as "The Age of Inter-Connection."
Yet what seems to be occurring is that people are trading their Offline lives, for their on-line lives, and cannot distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality. We should never trade our real lives, and our real selves, for subverted version of ourselves. We must experience the whole of reality; its ups and its downs; its problems and its solutions; deep dark moments of solitude and bright moments of glory; and understand that this life is ours, to meet, to laugh, to play, to dance, to raise money for good causes, to cause a change, to be the change, to change together and learn to understand our differences. We can do some of this Online, but if anything meaningful is to come out of this Online community, there must be Offline efforts made.
What is a Facebook Fast?
It simply means that I consider Facebook to be a hindrance upon my life, more than it is an aid. Because it is a hindrance and I have a compelling drive to bide my time using its Services, I would like to abstain from its use, in any form, for a period of 30 days to Forever.
Why Am I Doing This?
If something is a hindrance to your life it is because your ignorantly crave it. In order to rid myself of all ignorant cravings.
Everything is impermanent, and in this impermance all that exist is in this moment. It is The NOW that we so waste away, the minutes that we lose in constant brooding over past events, and the negativity that we let into our personal sphere of influence. It is the NOW that we waste clicking away on other's Facebook profiles intruding upon their lives.
What Am I going to do Now?
Now I am going to live. To live my life in such a way that every moment I spend doing something, it is something meaningful, something that I am doing for others, and if it is for myself, that I do it for all the right reasons, with others in mind. My goal is to live my life to the best of my ability every single day; within every single moment and second that passes by until the very die I die. This too shall pass.
My physical body will rot away and decay, ending up 6 feet deep, or may burnt to ashes, or maybe at the bottom of the deepest seas. I do not know when or how I will die, but it is the only certain this in life. One day your death will come and life will continue with or without you, for the truth of death is never truly certain. It is a sort of limited truth, because the only truth that exist when pondering what happens after death is "i don't know." This is certain. You do not really know, neither do I, neither does the Pope, or the Dalai Lama, neither do any religious figures that have ever existed. To believe in something by faith is the power to believe something regardless of any existent evidence. To believe by faith is a powerful thing. In the end, you are either right or wrong; but life goes on, with or without you or your heaven, or your earth, or your rebirth, or your hell.
We may never know. But what I do know is that if we live our lives to the best of our abilities death becomes not a topic that we delve too deeply in, but rather the topic of life.
How are you living your life right now?
You may say that you want to change. that you want to lose 35 pounds by the end of the year. That you want to get a book deal and write a novel. that you want to learn how to draw and paint and learn to decorate so you can change your profession to that of an interior designer. What are you doing right now to help you? You're reading this, and it's a good start, but what about after you stop reading this text. What will be your next course of action? Probably check your email, maybe go on Facebook, or maybe you'll tweet away, and your life passes you by once again, and you ask yourself "where did the time go?"
Where did the time go? And where it is going to go after your eyes leave this blog post? What is going to be your next course of action. You are the captain of your ship, the master of your soul, the author of your novel, you are the Atman or, the self. Will your next decision be to sail upon the shimmering seas and discover undiscovered territory, or will it be to inflate your ego, and cause storms to devour your ship whole.
Be Strong, Disconnect!
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