Dealing with the Noise
Life is quite noisy, isn't it? More and more I find that every waking moment is filled with noise. Something is always happening, always tingling your synapses and firing up your neurons. Could be pleasant, or not; stressful, or mild; exciting or humdrum. But there is something always there, buzzing around your head like a gnat, eating away at whatever little bit of peace you have managed to conjure up for yourself. Are these the just demands of modern civilization, the implicit contract we signed up to avail of the fruits of human society and progress? Or is it a tad bit more cacophonous then it should be? Workplaces are increasingly more stressful, especially in these uncertain times that we live in. The news cycle lurches from one catastrophe to the next, in an increasingly frenetic and macabre dance that incites and desensitizes in equal measure. Media - social or otherwise - is constantly in your face, setting benchmarks and laying out one marker after another that you should ...