When confronted with a dire circumstance, how do you react?
It is a dream of course.
Do you run and hide until you see an opening for an escape?
It is a dream of course.
Your every movement slowing down, muscles cramping to a crawl, as you navigate over the busy wet street trying to avoid oncoming traffic, unresponsive, screaming in silence. Will you wake before the termination?
It is a dream of course.
Or do you gather yourself together in order to fight back with the sweat of rapid eye movement?
Instinctively performing on a subconscious canvas of dreamscapes, until the awakening.
The impulse that incorporates into your consciousness of awokeness.
How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?
By not taking life’s freedoms for granted.
Cherishing the simple pleasures in life.
A leisurely promenade, a conversation at a sidewalk cafe, a long hug, smiling back at an infectious smile, watching the sunsets on the beach, hanging with friends and laughing from the belly and most of all freedom to move to and from.
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?
The only thing I can remember from that time was I loved playing with my toy, Big Jim. Later he would have a Kung-Fu grip. Maybe I wanted to be like him. My parents were able to get me many of his accessories and even the Big Jim Camper.
Comic books came soon after and I wanted to be the Hulk.
Then came the Happy Days television show and I wanted to be the Fonz.
My piano teacher asked me for a nickname, I said Hulk. A little later I changed it to Fonz. He would call me Fonzo.
Technology which is constantly changing, includes everything from the wheel and pulley to complex systems like computers, smartphones, military intelligence and weapons, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology.
Technology can make a job easier or difficult.
Technology can speed up all processes of life while make people lazy.
Technology also creates shortcuts, complacency and allows ignorance to blossom.
When work becomes easier due to technology, bosses want more productivity out of their workers.
When technology fails, people lose ability to function because their resilience has been diminished by it.
Technology interferes with natural organic ecosystems.
Technology has significant ethical implications, both positive and negative. In the wrong hands, most organisms could face extinction leading to catastrophic consequences.
Technology creates a new language encouraging a digital divide element.
Technology gets me to my job faster.
Technology has changed my jobs in a way that without it, I would have to relearn my job.
The road less traveled is unknown and uncharted. Embracing opportunities for growth or stagnation.
Mental congestion, distractions, loneliness, anxiety and misspent time accumulates with blurred vision on the beaten track of routine. To go back is to go forth.