‘Antidote’

“The world is sick” – people have forgotten what it is like to truly live and feel so unconscious as to where they want to go in their lives. It seems that people are searching for joy on their telephones, when in-fact social media isn’t that social AT ALL, and won’t bring about much joy in the slightest. So what can be done?

As I have previously written, the shopping mall has become the new church, so perhaps by touching in and enjoying the conversations with the people in our company when it exists is a great starting point. People seem to be so wrapped up in themselves these days that they cannot even open the door for another person or help an elderly person with their shopping. If we see someone struggling, surely we should stick together and help? To give back is an amazing feeling, and imagine what the world would be like if everyone did one voluntary thing for somebody else every week – I’m sure it would be a much better, happier place.

All forms of addictions can be considered as an escapism – to take someone from reality to another place where no worry exists. They feel worry free, and most of us are guilty and have an addiction of our own, whether that’s Facebook or drinking alcohol, but what we should stop and ask ourselves is does that really solve the problem? We know the answer to that, yet it still doesn’t stop us.

Just by being thankful for what we have and showing gratitude the universe WILL give you more things to be grateful for, it’s the fact of life. If we moan and complain, become selfish and centered on our own needs without taking into consideration the needs of others, it becomes an isolated, one-way society. Don’t we all want togetherness? I find that I’m happiest when I’m with my family, and we are all sat round laughing and telling jokes, because we are all in the present moment and the feeling of sharing joy with another being is priceless. A mobile phone doesn’t make us happy nor does having a network of over 3,000 people on Twitter or Facebook because none of that is in REAL life – this is what we need to remember. So next time you want to meet a friend or even catch up with someone, why not call them? Or why not write them a letter? Create the intimacy that has been lost for such a long time now; I think it’s caught up in something. That something being the Internet.

Getting back into a routine

Sometimes we can get too used to ‘doing nothing’ and we can easily fall out of routine. This summer break at university, the students on my course for all I’m sure has had five months off too, and oh my it has been a long break! I mean, if you are working and keeping yourself occupied the time length isn’t so bad, but if you are quite easily-led you may of found yourself partying your nights away and before you knew it ‘academic life’ was just around the corner.

Personally I used my time wisely and managed to continue my blogging, continued to write for a newspaper and still got to travel the world and climb a mountain. It is all about being flexible and versatile with your ways, adapting and conforming as well as compromising at times when things may not be going your way. It is useful to obtain traits such as those just mentioned as it allows you to multi-task and be exactly who you want to be, whilst progressing and becoming a better person each and every day.

This world is undoubtedly accelerating and times have got harder in comparison to my parent’s days. It was so easy back then to get 100% mortgages, to get on the property ladder with little money, to get the desired job without finishing school, going to college or even university – yet now competition has rocketed and the generation of today do face a tough battle.

Perhaps technology has segregated society in a partial way by isolating people on their devices rather than focusing on one-to-one communication in what is known as ‘real life’. If someone were to ask me which day I would have preferred to live in I don’t know what I would say as I just take life for what it is and give it my best shot, but at the same time I would love to see the British people smile a lot more.

There really is so many unfortunate people all over the world and it really opens up your eyes when you see ‘poverty-stricken’ people who have to walk miles just to fetch a bucket full of dirty water.

So do I like being back in a routine at university? Well it certainly is testing my patience that’s for sure! It’s a weird transition bouncing from student life to working life and then mixing the two together, the demands are quite extreme and pressurising. But will I give up? Certainly not, not unless it’s the last thing I do.