“The path is the goal” is easier said than done. Being mindful and present is part of that path until one arrives at a destination. The idea of being present is occupied by snaps and apps, where we document our presence all alone even in presence of other people.
When we experience macrotime, the quality of an event is experienced, it’s actualized, yet we are loosing our ability to discover the “event”. The idea is akin to being a tourist rather than a traveller, where we stay in sterile hotels of reclusive relaxation. To engage with local culture means to leave your controlled comfort zone for random discovery, to be curious about other people, to listen and walk down the road not taken.
It seems harder to find that road, too many people document their mundane private moments on social media, giving away their ego for approval along with private data that feeds the stock market. We’re loosing the ability to walk this way and discover the experience of presence in macrotime.
I’ve heard that if you have nothing to hide than what do you have at all? In our streams of digital consciousness, we’re learning how to filter what’s relevant, albeit it’s a whole lotta algorithms that feed us with discovery, only to reflect and repeat same same but not different.
I think we need to annex macrotime, which is even more pertinent in light of your social media accounts being scrutinized when entering other countries.