There is abundance of everything, around and inside. Abundance of information, most of which is irrelevant and thus abundance of distractions. What worsens this abundant availability is the fact that all of it is more easily accessible now than ever. It’s unfortunate how this easy access to abundant sources of entertainment, mostly in the virtual world though, is killing the human anxiety and ability to feel ecstatic about the simpler joys of life - joys which are meant to really make our hearts feel warmer. We do not enjoy the smaller things anymore, is an evident truth. Us humans are not innocent anymore. And this loss of innocence is due to our inability to be vulnerable to what really matters to us, for we’d now rather be distracted to something that catches our interest than to admit the fact that there are certain things and people in our lives who make a difference in our life more than anything else does.  The law is simple- The more we have going inside and around, the more it distracts us. And the more distracted we are, more we are prevented from vulnerability to something that really matters. Everything now is casual. And we are now more robotic beings than we ever were.

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On the inside, there is abundance of thoughts, memories and ideas. The passing thoughts just won’t stop. Some of them disappear in one go as soon as some other thought makes its way to our uncontrolled mind, while some of them never disappear. They just fade away into a blur, gradually, only to make their way back in when we are tired pretending to ourselves.

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Amidst all this, what lacks is peace and contentment. For what’s on offer is easy distraction and not peace and contentment. What’s on offer is more in numbers and less in matter. What’s on offer is for us to pick our own distraction from a mess of things and master it. But eventually it is a mere distraction. All that there is to avail is to satisfy the mind and not the soul. We aspire to make it big and not be easily satisfied with even our own achievements, forget about the simpler and effortless joys of life. Unsurprisingly, contentment is nowhere to be seen. What makes it worse is that none of us knows where to slow down. This has become the nature of our minds.

 

​However, this isn’t what our soul feeds off. The soul remains restless while we are busy feeding the mind of what it asks for, for distraction. What we do not realize is that as we continue this process of eluding from ourselves and the real, our mind is getting tired and our soul, hopeless.