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Does Everyone Experience Overwhelm From Time to Time?
If they’re a human being, then yes. What comes next is a choice.
Human beings were not designed to have overwhelm be our default. But here we are.
It should come as no surprise to anyone. Between billboards, TV, radio, social media, email, the internet, smartphones, and various other media we encounter daily, we’re frequently, utterly inundated.
Odds are, you’re reading this on a phone, tablet, or PC. All of these are devices that were created to better connect us. They’re also meant to make our lives easier on multiple levels.
But software developed for these devices has changed society in unexpected ways. Now, rather than direct interaction, many of us are happy to simply text back and forth. Information once delivered once a day on TV news — from sources with mandated integrity — is now available 24/7 from sources both legit and utterly bullshit.
Everywhere you turn, someone is trying to sell you something. Goods and services are subtly and blatantly in your face demanding you buy them. Then, we’re being pulled every which way by friends, family, so-called leaders, influencers, and total strangers with a virtual bully pulpit of one form or another.
