I hiked the mountain of a cooled breeze morning trail. Tranquility. I listened to the silence of nature and saw the beauty of God’s creation. Stillness. I had the ability to recognize the quietness of the moment. And think:

As I continue to walk the path that I am on and experience the journey that has been given to me, one awareness that I believe I am coming into is the direction of our society.

As I continue the work that I am involved in, as I have the interactions with people that I do and as I become more attuned to the moment, I find that we as humans are becoming less human.

By less human I mean, due to the onset of what I want to coin as The Black Mirror Plague, we are losing our ability to interact with one another; our humanity is becoming lost. We have nonverbally agreed to a societal norm that emotions do not matter.

No longer do we stop to establish connection with others but rather we continue on with the label of “busyness”. But the underlying message that is really being displayed is: we are too busy to be human anymore; too busy to listen; too busy to walk alongside our brothers and sisters and understand who they are as human beings, understand their perspective on life, understand them…

Our humanity is becoming lost as we become lost in the paradox of this era: while we have the most capable means and access of communication in human history, it is our inability to communicate that is depriving us.