Unplugged
Unplugged... Definitions: "To remove a plug from, to free from an obstruction, to disconnect..." I might add: " To reclaim time - and a healthier relationship to it...To experience the present moment more fully, to dwell in the eternal now..." Recently, on my vacation - I experienced time "disconnected" from the Internet, from my computer, and other such devices... Yet, while I walked around the city, observing others engaged in their quotidian routines, I was struck by a legion of souls, walking down city streets, oblivious to their surroundings, obsessively texting messages, checking email, or "surfing the web" on their mobile phones... Even the woman sitting next to me on the plane - on one of the legs of my flight back home - ignored the dictate given by the flight attendant to turn off her phone after the door of the plane had been closed. Instead, she continued doing stuff on her Blackberry, and I wondered, what in the world could be so im...