I know! You’re saturated with reading and hearing life go offline, to be honest, so am I. But this weekend, I was enjoying a generous little solcito after the rainy days and stretching the clothes in the sun without haste, thinking about life by patiently adjusting the clothes on the clothesline. Suddenly, I realized how long it had been for me since I walked into the yard to do such insignificant things, always speed up, save time, look for resources to get me off the boat.
When I was presented with a sacred blessing called WhatsApp, I remember receiving audio from someone who gave a “testimony” about the version you received when you stopped using the app. The content was jokingly, “The Liberation of Jesus”, but honestly, I think this audio should be transmitted again in a tone of public utility, hehehe.
- There’s no way to live simultaneously in two parallel worlds.
- So yes.
- When you’re still connected to social media.
- Apps.
- Online games.
- Etc.
- You’re disconnected from real life.
- From the world where life really happens.
It is off-screen that you feel the touch, the smell, that you can see the expression of the looks that say a lot without saying a word. Off-screen, the task of kids that we don’t always check because we didn’t have time, is the cake in the oven that we don’t make, because we spend all our time sharing recipes for things we never cooked, as if nutrition also came online.
Off-screen, it’s affection, love, anger, real feelings and sensations, real people. I know, it’s online that our lives have taken place (or at least a large majority). Great virtual friendships, intense relationships and hopeful promises “one day we will meet”. But the exciting life?
Today I’m not going to dwell on the many words I love to write. It would be more the same, rain on wet ice, dry ice and any other saying that comes to mind than it’s no use saying what everyone already knows, as if I had divine inspiration to change the world.
Is that fair? As I put the clothes on the clothesline, I looked out the door and saw everyone disconnected for a while, toys on the living room floor, the dog sleeping in the driveway, loose conversations about I don’t remember what, until my dive was interrupted by one?You want to have an ice cream when I’m done there?
And I went to the ice cream parlor, I didn’t take a selfie of my pineapple peel, I didn’t sign up. I immersed myself in a conversation about something routine in real life and I remember Facebook getting to the subject, like an annoying lover who meddles in intimacy. What was going on on Facebook?” I don’t see anything else, not like anything else, I don’t know what else is going on. “
Meanwhile, my index finger moved towards me and my interlocutor and I said: it is because this is life, this is real life, that we live of begging and exhibiting things that send us there, and when we live in real life, there is almost no time to experience the unreality of the virtual world.
I know? I’m raining wet. I just wanted to tell you that when I realized how alienated I am from virtual business, it was because I realized that I had lived again in the real world, of sensations and real people, that we stopped going unnoticed, because we put Smiles and tears, and you stop seeing these same things on this side, where life really happens. And when you live for real, you don’t have much time for virtual reality.
Is the reverse redundant and realistic? You don’t live simultaneously in parallel worlds, when you experience one, you’re mortally absent from the other.
And what is it like in life, where are you going to live, also a matter of choice?