Connection Issues

As I write this, anger is building within me as I try downloading a file on my laptop. I’m angry because the only access to a network connection is my phone’s hotspot which has two bars of cellular service.

Ironically, just an hour ago, I jotted down this note: Our hyper connection to networks is at a point where connection issues may be an opportunity rather than a problem. I should take my advice.

When your phone is slow to connect, and your laptop can’t connect at all, what are you left with? What bubbles up to the surface when you can’t scroll up and down Instagram? What thoughts run through your mind when your phone battery dies with no charger in sight?

We’re so connected that when we experience the slightest interruption in our networks, we feel agitated or completely beside ourselves with what to do next.

Can you have a productive day at the office if you show up and the internet is down? Can you have a fun evening at home if Netflix has signed you off the account you’ve been bumming off of for a year? Can you engage with the things that have connected us to nature, others, and ourselves for hundreds of thousands of years before networks connected our devices?

When disconnected from internet servers, the opportunity to see how everything else is connected opens up if we’re willing to pay enough attention to what’s going on around and within us.