It is said that if we don’t use our gifts they’re taking away from us. Another common saying is “if you don’t use it you lose it”. Whether you are religious, spiritual or feel as if you don’t believe in anything you can still see many examples of this in our every day lives.If you don’t exercise you lose muscle if you don’t walk you lose the ability to if you’ve been given an opportunity and you don’t seize it it slips through your hands. Something else that is very true in life is what we focus on grows and if we are focused on too many things and our attention is diminished… We tend to not function very well as our energy becomes dispersed yet if we focus on one idea with great enough passion and purpose and we work at that idea every day for a period of time it does not take long to see changes in our lives as a result of that.
I feel that in a life in which it is so easy to become distracted we risk giving away one of the most important things in our life our time this is the one commodity that we can never get back and a day not spent with purposeful intent it’s a day that you can ever get back.Yet we are in a life that makes it extremely easy to waste our time. How hard is it for one of us to pick up a cell phone and start to doom scroll our way through the evening pretty soon 15 minutes turns into 1 hour and 1 hour can turn into two and so on. The video gaming industry is another great example of this I think we’re at the point now where many of these Video game titles predicate themselves on the idea that people need to become addicted to their games in order to truly achieve the results that players can in their mind receive clout for.
Whether it be streaming television episodes or doom scrolling through YouTube or playing your favorite video game at the end of it your attention has been placed into a virtual vessel and you only be as good as what the program or programs and in that way we surrender our time in a manner that prevents us from truly focusing on what’s important in our lives.Being able to break away from this technocratic mindset it’s not an easy thing especially now in the days where internet technology has become more and more ingrained into our lives and there is pressure for that integration to continue to become more of a factor in our lives
Coming back full circle if we are focused on what the technocratic forces send our way and we are not focused on the gifts we have been given are we not at risk of losing our gifts because of the fact that we have dispersed our mind and our consciousness into outlets that are not dictated by ourselves … This is something that I have really truly have me coming fully focused on. As someone of a deeply spiritual nature if I have come here to do something and I allow these influences to continue to drain my awareness on my consciousness perhaps I run the risk of missing the mark in terms of what I did come here to do and perhaps the gifts I have been given will indeed be taken away and given to someone else who is more worthy… Or perhaps the result will be a life in which lessons have to be repeated in which suffering has to be repeated because I’m here to learn something and I haven’t learned it.
Time is really one of the things all of us have the same amount of. Once our day is done. We can never get that back. I feel in some ways that I have been more aware of this than I’d like to admit and it’s almost as though I have been subtly lying to myself for a long period of time and not willing to truly face the ramifications and the beauty of what I’m processing here. Just remember the next time you give yourself that dopamine hit and find yourself connected to one of your favorite technocratic vices just understand that once this day is gone you can never get it back and you are ultimately accountable for that and this type of accountability can truly be freeing for the soul because once you become accountable then you can make a different choice and when you make a different choice amazing things can happen.