When did we lose it?

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to talk, how to honor each other presence?</li><li>When did we fall for the promise of infinite growth and progress?</li><li>When did we start putting in a corner hard-gained experience, wisdom, and commitment, and put premature overconfidence and likeability on a pedestal?</li><li>When did we stop taking care of ourselves and started taking care only of our reflection on a camera?</li><li>When did we start manicuring obsessively our image and obsessing with our looks, thinking that this would bring any real value into our lives?</li><li>When did we start using a camera like a crowbar to lift up our — otherwise expressionless — faces?</li><li>When did we hand over our self-worth and self-esteem to heartless algorithms?</li><li>When did we start creating ad hoc opportunities to over document a life we do not have, instead of simply enjoying every moment?</li><li>When did we start having food, clothes, friends, and experiences based on their Instagram potential?</li><li>Perfuming, camouflaging, over curating: when did we lose our most primordial use of the senses?</li><li>When did we stop living the present to give head to postponing, projecting, and ruminating?</li><li>When did we give up on ourselves, on time and on nature doing its course, in favor of fame and instant-everything?</li><li>When did we stop demanding clean air, clean water, and respect?</li><li>When did we start eating and stop nourishing our bodies?</li><li>When did money become more important than people, than children, more important than life, than love, than peace?</li><li>When did life on Mars become more exciting than life on Earth?</li><li>When did we start disregarding p

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hysical and manual work, putting “intellectual” work on a pedestal, losing touch with our senses and reality?</li><li>When did we start mistaking compulsion for freedom?</li><li>When did we start thinking we are so special and unique to forget our common roots and bonds?</li></ul>When did we start thinking we could outsmart our ancestors, to then admit that to survive we had to go back to walking, riding a bike, clean food /water/air, fasting, and spirituality?Was there a turning point? A breakthrough? A day in the calendar when we started getting over ourselves, losing touch with who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.Every day we are writing the pages of the history books future generations will read. As much as we like to pin down dates in our calendars, wars have never started with the explosion of a bomb, or the launch of a grenade. Instead, conflicts have always been triggered by a palpable accumulation of events, tensions, and misunderstandings, an escalation left unattended waiting for the very last drop.I can pin down every place I have visited in the past 10 years, every social interaction, but I can not map this mindless and restless slow erosion, something so embued in every single aspect of our life that we just can no longer draw the line, a virus we pretend we did not see coming yet permeating the very core of our human experience.I want to trust and see hope, yet understanding how we got here is the only way to prevent history from repeating and/or to understand towards what kind of new miseries we are heading to.</article></body>

(*) IT meaning anything that matters in our lives & collective human experience

I am a big girl with a big question for the World out there:

When did we lose it*?

(*) It meaning anything that matters in our lives and collective human experience.

Was there a moment in time, maybe an avalanche gaining momentum? Or, was is it just a careless slow falling down, an atom-by-atom erosion, an innocuous drop of water that has made a hole that is now dragging us down?

When did we start becoming strongly opinionated and totally uninformed?

When did we start mistaking the wi-fi signal availability for connection?

When did we start lowering our gaze down and curl our chest in to avoid the eyes of passerby’s?

When did we stop reading and started scrolling thinking it was the same?

When did we stop crocheting and crafting, and started Candy Crush Saga?

When did we exchange a culture of responsibility for one of self-entitlement?

When did we forget how to cook, how to take care of one another, how to talk, how to honor each other presence?

When did we fall for the promise of infinite growth and progress?

When did we start putting in a corner hard-gained experience, wisdom, and commitment, and put premature overconfidence and likeability on a pedestal?

When did we stop taking care of ourselves and started taking care only of our reflection on a camera?

When did we start manicuring obsessively our image and obsessing with our looks, thinking that this would bring any real value into our lives?

When did we start using a camera like a crowbar to lift up our — otherwise expressionless — faces?

When did we hand over our self-worth and self-esteem to heartless algorithms?

When did we start creating ad hoc opportunities to over document a life we do not have, instead of simply enjoying every moment?

When did we start having food, clothes, friends, and experiences based on their Instagram potential?

Perfuming, camouflaging, over curating: when did we lose our most primordial use of the senses?

When did we stop living the present to give head to postponing, projecting, and ruminating?

When did we give up on ourselves, on time and on nature doing its course, in favor of fame and instant-everything?

When did we stop demanding clean air, clean water, and respect?

When did we start eating and stop nourishing our bodies?

When did money become more important than people, than children, more important than life, than love, than peace?

When did life on Mars become more exciting than life on Earth?

When did we start disregarding physical and manual work, putting “intellectual” work on a pedestal, losing touch with our senses and reality?

When did we start mistaking compulsion for freedom?

When did we start thinking we are so special and unique to forget our common roots and bonds?

When did we start thinking we could outsmart our ancestors, to then admit that to survive we had to go back to walking, riding a bike, clean food /water/air, fasting, and spirituality?

Was there a turning point? A breakthrough? A day in the calendar when we started getting over ourselves, losing touch with who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.

Every day we are writing the pages of the history books future generations will read. As much as we like to pin down dates in our calendars, wars have never started with the explosion of a bomb, or the launch of a grenade. Instead, conflicts have always been triggered by a palpable accumulation of events, tensions, and misunderstandings, an escalation left unattended waiting for the very last drop.

I can pin down every place I have visited in the past 10 years, every social interaction, but I can not map this mindless and restless slow erosion, something so embued in every single aspect of our life that we just can no longer draw the line, a virus we pretend we did not see coming yet permeating the very core of our human experience.

I want to trust and see hope, yet understanding how we got here is the only way to prevent history from repeating and/or to understand towards what kind of new miseries we are heading to.

When did we lose IT*? An open question to the World

(*) IT meaning anything that matters in our lives & collective human experience