What adventurous times we live in.

A thousand lies mixing with a thousand little truths, the troubled times have never been so confused.

And yet, here you are, here I am, alive and living...

Playing and dancing and planning...

What strange curiosities will life bring next?

That's about as far as one can get when it comes to outside circumstances, events beyond one's control.

But what about you and your life?

What about you and your desires?

Yes...

Your story continues to unfold.

Are you taken by anything, enraptured, enveloped and in awe of your existence?

No, yes, sometimes!

NEVER...

The madness...

Well, all is well, all is as it is...

Yet...

All is well.

Let me share with you a little 'awakening' I had ages ago.

You see, it had to do with television. I threw mine away, gave it a way actually.

For 15 years, I was without a tv. It was delightful.

Then, the internet started delivering anything and everything a human can want. And because I like to learn, and because it is easy to digest, and because because because because...

Everyone has a "because", also known as an excuse disguised as, "I can't do that because..."

because, my business, my girlfriend, my boyfriend, my job, my GOD I can't turn my phone off...

Television, internet, mobile phones, youtube, social media, netflix and the news, nothing new, choose your stimulant, your depressant, your entertaining lies. Your friend, right there for you, 24 hours a day, online all the time.

So I watched that behaviour play out over some time, watching how my own protective measures of no television, were replaced with a strange mixture of entertainment and education mainlined through the medium.

But there's a lie wrapped in it.

Oh how funny we humans are, so easy to deceive, so easy to deceive ourselves, "Learning".

Well, a long time ago, I recognised what was taking place, and I didn't engage until I did.

All is well...

Until it isn't...

And even then it is...

So you see, I felt like my mind and mood were beginning to melt away in a deleterious fashion and all at my own behest.

I was choosing it.

And that is the best news ever.

You see, most things in life are out of our control, but the best of life is right here waiting for us to make a choice.

The choice to choose life fulfilling and energy creating activities or...

The dumps of "digital dementia" and self induced insecurities and depression.

Seems like a simple choice, but is it.

You choose...

...do you like to struggle or do you like it easy?

And don't be too quick to answer.

Honesty runs away from us, particularly when we are looking within.

I will tell you more in the next email about the digital curfew I started on all devices and how powerful the effects have been as well as a short recap of the past year, but for now I am done writing for the moment, but here's a clue, I am off, off, off, off and in peace and serenity.

There's a glorious breeze carrying over the valley and through the trees, waiting for me to say yes please.

To making better choices and doing so with love,

Emeric Damian

p.s. "Digital Dementia", what a beautiful phrase which I first heard about from this video of Prof. Dr. Manfred Spitzer...

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