What is self-awareness? It is the awareness that, as we age, our bodies change with them, so we can’t always predict how people will respond to our health, so we can’t be sure we have it in us to live a long and healthy life.
We all know that our appearance changes more drastically with age. I know that I feel older than I want to, but I can also remember my teenage years, and I know that I look younger than I am now. I also know that I have no idea how people feel about me. But I can also remember that I have no idea how other people feel about me.
We can probably see it in the movies. But what happens when we watch movies, or a book? Our brains tend to forget what we watch. We forget our age, but it’s not so hard to remember that. We forget how we look, but we forget that we have this beautiful ability to look at things, and it’s a pretty good thing. We learn how to think like we do, and how to act like we do.
So what we learn, I think, is that we’re good at playing games, and we want to get better at playing. But most of us don’t, or sometimes don’t recognize that we are doing it, and that’s why we don’t think about it. But we forget that we are good at playing games.
This is the point of this post. We are in an age in which people are spending more time in front of the computer than in front of the TV, and we are losing the ability to remember how we feel. People are spending more time in front of the computer than in front of the TV because they are doing things online, using their computers and phones to browse the web, and doing work. These things are not easy for us.
My wife is a good example. We are both good at playing video games, but we always play them in front of the television. It is easy to be distracted and lose track of what we are trying to achieve. Of course, when we are playing video games online, there is no real need to be in front of the television. Our phones and computers are good enough.
This same principle applies to a lot of things. If you are eating food, doing work, and doing anything else online that requires concentration, then you are going to be worse off for it than if you were eating it alone. When we are doing online activities, we can’t control the information and can’t just sit back and watch it.
I mean, sure, the computer here can be your friend… but when our computers are online, we are in a different time loop. While you are going about your business, it can be that your work or your food or whatever is sitting at the computer and our computers are on the other side of the world, but when those computers go offline, you loose out too. In the same way, if we are playing online, we never have to worry about the information being lost.
Yes, computers can be our friends if we use them right. We can be on a time loop of our own choosing. We can stay at a computer and play a game, but if we pause the game and come back later, we can see that the game is still there. We can do a lot of things that we wouldn’t do if we were online.
But if you are online, you can lose out on many things. When we lose out on our games, we never fully get back them. When we lose out on our games, we never completely get them back. We might not even get it back.