Adrift in a sea of pixels

     So I have been browsing the past few days looking for something new and shiny to ingest in to the mush that is my brain. I have been looking at everything from movies, TV shows, video games, and I am even reading a new book ( I went from Game of Thrones to a book highlighting conversations with H.H. Dali Lama). Now while this may seem normal to want to find variety with entertainment and I must say that I am like everyone else in that regard. However, currently between all the books that are in my wife's collection and what I have in mine (which quite honestly is just one big collection; although, her selections outnumber mine), over 400 movies in our collection, countless amounts of movies that I can stream and roughly 100 games at my disposal (don't ask how many I have actually beaten) I am still restless when it comes time to find something that will occupy my mind.
    
     I am a big proponent of technology; however, new devices that are continually being invented, improved upon, and thought up are becoming more of a detraction thus lessening the interconnection that we as humans had always had for centuries prior. Whether or not this is the reason that our world is in such disarray or not I do not know. What I do know is this, my wife and I owned a house in Florida for three years yet I could not tell you a single neighbors name. Where we currently live aside from the occasional friendly hand wave or nod to signify hello, I know nothing really about my neighbors. Although this may not sound uncommon it is not healthy for us as  a species, we need the times of the past to be more prevalent. A time when people actually cared more about their community and what was happening around them.
    
     I must admit even as I type this that I can't help but think that the book I am reading is influencing my thoughts on this matter but I think that is a good thing because if  there was one thing I could have cared less about it was a community mentality.As I get older though I start to think about all manner of things that I never cared about when I was younger, I am starting to read the news a bit more, I am more concerned with what is happening globally and how this might impact me and my family and lastly I am more concerned with how what I am saying and doing impacts others around me.
    
     And I think technology has led us to believe that we have a wall (kind of like this wall of text)that we think shields us when in reality it really does the exact opposite. The wall is more of a mirror it actually reflects our true personalities for better or worse, whether it is responding to a comment on a website that then is taken out of context or is interpreted the wrong way and a flame war begins or something as simple as being an outright jerk to someone intentionally in whatever online forum you choose ( Facebook, Twitter, message boards), the consequences can be very harsh because I think we all forget that once we interject our personal thoughts, opinions, or hyperbole then it is out there on the internet forever. Years from now when scholars look back at the time that we are in now, would you rather them say that your words were like that of a Hemingway or C.S. Lewis or would you rather be unknown because the words you spouted did not even rate a footnote in the history of time.

     Me personally I want to be known as a person that people liked and knew that they could count on and not just a person that like their status on Facebook. So you might be wondering how this relates to the original idea of a restless mind that I mentioned not to long ago. I can't really say that it connects but I would very much like to thank you for coming along for the ride as my mind wrestles with restlessness. And if at times it seems like points A and B don't have a direct connection to one another then you should be in my head where sometimes I skip directly to Z. While this may be at times confusing for you the reader, imagine how it is for me inside my own head.

BTS