Moments

I think we forget what it is like to just sit and do nothing. When I say nothing, I mean nothing. No phone or laptop or any online device or music or magazine. But just to sit and be surrounded by silence and our own thoughts. That I believe, is scary to most of us.

In a world where everything is so fast and everything happens immediately, I feel myself getting pulled into this chaos where my equilibrium is off kilter. Whether that is watching the TV and being on my phone or being in a queue and not quite knowing what to do with myself, I feel a bit lost.

Looking around, I see people sucked into their devices, which may seem hyperbolic as I am writing this on a laptop. However I have been doing more observing in real life, more listening to me and less scrolling, less time wasting.

I have been  reading a book called 'Everything that Remains' about two Minimalists and their story. It has been so refreshing and wonderful to read, I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
From reading this I realised I have been a bit lost in a world of complete buzz, being sucked into the word "successful". It made me re-evalute how I spent my time - I may be challenging myself this year, with things like no phone for a week etc. I feel genuinely excited by all this that its lovely!
While currently being a complete minimalist isn't what I want or can manage currently, taking little pieces from the lifestyle is the best way for me to stay real.

You know that feeling when you're with friends and family and you think "I am going to remember this moment forever", and you truly experienced it? You just were enveloped with that warm gooey feeling? That is my mission this year. To have more Moments like that. To create Moments and I suppose to share Moments.

This is very unlike my usual posts but this is a bit of a random patchwork type blog anyway!
Here is to more Moments (and more sharing moments on my blog!!)!