Easter Sunday recently happened and we went to an egg hunt party with my brother and nieces. It made me think back of my childhood and how 'simple' times were back then.
It felt like time moved so slow and there were more than 24 hours in a day. The world felt really big and you're living in your own world. It was like I can do anything and everything yet would still have time to do something else lol.
It might be the nostalgia, or remembering times our own way, but I think this is a common feeling among us.
It's the internet.
(lol that was fast)
We didn't have stable internet growing up so a lot of my childhood was either going out to play with the neighborhood kids, playing on my own with toys, reading the dictionary and literally anything I could see, sewing doll clothes, making sculpture, playing with dirt, etc. Even when we got a family computer, I would just check Encarta or Encyclopedia Britannica if I remember it correctly since those don't need an internet connection.
I would explore every game and writings and trivias in those programs and I would never get bored of them.
And then, we slowly got internet connection from time to time. It wasn't like a subscription like what we have now, it was only when you 'load' the modem and let's say for 5 days you'll have limited data til it runs out or expires.
The world changed for me. The 'Encarta' became so much bigger. I can search anything, watch videos I want, download music from virus-contained apps. It's like the day would never end cos I can be on the internet as long as there's data.
Even in my teenage years, we didn't have the most stable internet connection because it was expensive back then. I was able to be on the internet and gather some inspirations and would be able to make a lot of art and stuff offline.
Nowadays, it feels like 24hours is way too fast and I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling this. Digital age as they say. The world became smaller and we can send things faster. Communication is instant.
And because of that, we have to do things in an instant too.
Because the world is so accessible right now, we are able to consume a lot of content. Maybe get distracted. Maybe our focus is on something else. It feels like we don't live in real time. There's always something to do. Something we HAVE to do.
And it's so important to take a break from technology from time to time. That's probably why most of us are burnt out and are easily so. Instead of us doing what is supposed to be a fun activity for ourselves, we're on the internet consuming content. Even worse if you live on creating content or anything creative, you'll get the pressure of producing more often. Causing you to be burnt out more often.
Without internet, time was so slow because we didn't know what we were missing out on. We didn't see much of other people's lives. We got to live our own.
We can't just stop using it ofc. Just breaks more often would help I guess.