Go 'OFF THE GRID'

 Go 'OFF THE GRID'

Being part of the mainstream has always been our comfort zone.   Be it in the latest social media buzz or the latest fashion fad or even the places most people go to dine out, conventional wisdom dictates that the majority can't just go wrong. Oh well, its aye for me in most cases but it can't be true through and through though.

How many times have you seen either a couple or bff's going out for dinner and out there, both are just so engrossed with social media, so oblivious that they have company for that dine-out.  Does this not defeat the very purpose of going out ?  To bond during your common spare window ?  Instead, each is in his/her own silo, not until the food gets served.  What happens next is as good as your guess.  They end up to 'EAT and RUN'.

Wall clocks anyone ?  Nope, that's a thing of the past BUT having said that this is the time to declare that we ourselves have become hostages to every tick of the clock.  And didn't you realize, for most of us, the last thing we touch base before shutting off our eyes is social media and come next morning, that's the very first stuff we make ourselves busy.  Didn't we realize that. subtly, we're ending up hostaged by the clock time ?

Heard of stories where an ambitious fellow did heed the advice of folks around him as he was overly ambitious to reach his 'promised land' the soonest with the least effort ?  And when he was finally atop that heap of fallacies and fantasies, he realized he was literally lost in the trail after he did heed the advice of all the people around him.  The harsh reality in life is that people are generally opinionated.  If there are ten folks around you, rest assured you will receive ten inputs that will lead you more dizzy and puzzled.  Have you approached someone to seek advice and you were curtly snobbed ?  Very hardly and rarely, at all.

Good enough, most of us know what we want.  And I guess, if we share any commonality, it's that dream to live an ideal life.  So, why don't we consider sometimes to go 'OFF THE GRID', sans social media, sans those apps, sans the kibitzers around you, sans the distractions within your periphery ?  Because we are entitled to our own Nirvana, that state of PERFECT QUIETUDE, FREEDOM, HIGHEST HAPPINESS and our liberation from worldly suffering❗❗❗