Ending Distraction

Today I deleted Facebook, Netflix and YouTube off my phone.

It’s not that I feel these applications are bad of themselves. I have been challenged to limit the distractions in my life.

I had a 10 minute walk to reflect on this decision, and I was reminded of a video I had seen recently of Tucker Carlson and the “Ethical Hacker”, Ryan Montgomery, discussing a jamming technology that overwhelmed all other local signals. If you switch this device on, it jams all signals in a 70m radius: Cell phones, GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth. Ryan explained how it worked by allegory: Imagine two people are in a small room having a private conversation, and a third person enters the room and starts screaming at the top of their lungs. The two people having the conversation will no longer understand each other due to the cacophony. 

https://youtu.be/TN63H3GDBlU?si=Z-jyLY9uiUts_N0V&t=319

This made me reflect on our world today. The nature of entertainment, devices and applications saturating our mind with polluted and dishonourable thinking.

I have decided to consciously avoid unnecessary distractions. To spend time in silence when the opportunity arises with nothing but my thoughts and nature, as opposed to saturating my mind with content.

I think of the voice of God, of intuition. The presence and clarity of mind to hear the still, small voice of your conscience. 

We are so bombarded with noise, that we are often unable to decipher the signal from the noise.

Perhaps we need to go into silence and make a sincere and definite decision to end distraction.

Honour will come.