Portrait Mode

So I guess this is what it looks like to live a really happy life... or to have an iPhone with portrait mode 🤔 .

But in all seriousness, anyone who knows me knows that I have a less than pleasant relationship with social media. I get frustrated when the photos don't accurately convey me, my happiness, or the richness of my life. And I get aggravated when the photo doesn't match the brilliance of the experience. . I loathe the modern day attachment to the phone and how it is diminishing our ability to delay gratification, how it has broken human connection, and how its attachment thieves our presence in any given moment.

What separates us from other species is our well developed prefrontal cortex—our ability to think more critically than other species. I despise that as a society we so often fail to embrace that. We fail to humble ourselves to it. We miss the opportunity to make the most of it. I cringe when I think about how the human community has given these brainless things a life, that it has surrendered the very thing that makes us human/unique the rest of our ecosystem.

And most of all, I hate that we live in a world in which we have set the standard that our happiness is flat enough to be contained within the four corners of a square on a screen. Because happiness is multi-dimensional. It is vibrant. It has texture. And it has soul. . And despite all of this, in that same space I have hope. The very differentiation that elevates our experience is what makes such changes possible to begin with. Every day I work with clients looking to regain, refine, and sharpen their consciousness. People WANT to be connected. People WANT to connect with themselves, and with others. They yearn to live a life of congruence and satisfying expression... and I get the pleasure and honor of helping them reach that. And every one of my clients amazes me every day.

So moral of the story: we live in a system that has given value to what we post. So I hope to make some of it meaningful. I vote we take the photos, and post the pretty stuff, and that we do it with consciousness and meaning.