The thing is, we are now so connected to the rest of the world – we can write to our friends that live miles away from us or look at a friends latest vacations pictures from the other side of the world when we are on the bus, in the underground, or perhaps when we are walking. We get tempted to always find new information, pictures or news, which leads to that we somehow loose track of what is surrounding us. We are all very engaged people when we sit in the bus, but in many different realities that might look completely different – even when we all are situated in one common space.
Although, in one way, it could be a subtle political statement as well, if we are not satisfied with our surroundings, we can decide to reject it and experience another one through our phone. We can connect to a reality we choose, graphics we like, the colours we find appealing. We turn down the buildings, the paths, the bus interior. It can work as an escape, but then, we might not see the reason to work for a change of our surrounding environment, because we, in a sense, can choose another one. Or you can experience the space through someone else’s perception – by playing i.e. a city game, an app about i.e. your area.
When we sit in our own little universe, the interesting thing is that we all are (more or less) our own master in our version of reality. We decide to whom we want to write to, if we are going to be online on the facebook chat or who we want to not be able to see if we are online. We are controlling things, and maybe we need to do that when there are so many other things that are uncontrollable in other parts of life, but then we are also loosing something. The things that happen accidently, situations that may help or inspire us. We need to search for something in particular when we are online, we need to write the question we are looking for the answer to. We know what we want to find. In life, sometimes we don’t even really know the question until we get the answer.
After all, it could be good for us to interact with the factors that are more unreliable, the reality we all have in common. To talk, or at least notice the person next to you in the bus, or actually see the people you walk past on the street. Maybe they will continue to be strangers that you will see only once in your life, or they might not. That’s the exciting thing with life, you never know what interesting things you will see or who fascinated people you will meet, and if you never notice them, well, then you never will.
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