All of modern comforts, and distractions, and noise, will make you less aware of what’s wrong in your life. It’s very important to know what’s wrong in your lif

All of modern comforts, and distractions, and noise, will make you less aware of what’s wrong in your life. It’s very important to know what’s wrong in your life. The problems of our time are very different, unlike previous generations whose problems were mostly material in nature. In our generation, the biggest challenge is to live life with all its pain and all its pleasure in equal amounts, which is very hard considering that technology solely exists to reduce as much pain as possible, and increase as much pleasure as possible. And it’s not just technology, there are many other ways to distract oneself, which the previous generations used as well, but I emphasize technology because technology exists for that sole reason, and unlike anything before it, it is only going to increase exponentially. For most things, technology only provides a band-aid solution for the human condition without fixing the root cause, and people end up applying ten thousand band-aids, and then wonder why they still are still broken inside and need more band-aids. In the end what this means is you need to reduce things in your life that you do out of avoidance of discomfort, and increase things that you do because you want to, despite any discomfort that they may bring. You can use social media if you want to. But if you are using social media where your want is borne out of avoiding some other itch in your life that you can’t seem to scratch, it is better to not use social media. Same applies to any other comfortable distraction. What matters, is not just the specific thing you are doing, but rather the intent behind it.