Where I live, the neighbors and
the local news are rife with daily reports of break-ins, car “smash-and-grabs," phone and laptop thefts.
WATCH OUT! 😦
Speaking of phones and laptops,
the local news and video sharing sites are full of warnings about how hackers
have gotten into them, stolen our data, and are running wild with our accounts.
WATCH OUT! 😧
And while we have hackers taking
space on our frontal lobes, apparently our government is not immune to them. Our
electric grids, defense apparatus and voting rolls, not to speak of the social security
numbers of all of us, have been infiltrated by hostile entities.
WATCH OUT! 😨
As if this isn’t enough and you
may be thinking that you can always leave your country for a better protected
one, from all directions the media is blasting that our whole planet is close
to dying because we will toast on account of Global Warming, something we are
told is happening ever faster than anyone predicted.
WATCH OUT! 😱
Wait a minute--- I have a better
suggestion. Stop watching. At least pull the plug on media that is
dependent on us staying plugged in and is counting on the fear factor to keep us
there.
This isn’t a call to put one’s head
in the sand. I sure don’t. But I suggest that taking breaks from being plugged
in is a cure that most are long overdue.
I take regular
internet/computer/phone breaks. Not long ones, just enough to look around, appreciate
my reality and good fortune of being alive, and restore healthy breathing.
I come up for air now and then. It
makes a better and even more alert me, more able to cope with all the above.
