To Feel Comfort in The World of Chaos

Waking up in the morning, you reach your phone out immadiately. Entering the passcode, you turn on the wifi or cellular data and start to check your virtual world in hand. Only in a couple of seconds, the gadget sends you lots of updates, notifications, news, and unsorted mixes of random information. So much consumption of internet content in the morning makes you feel connected. However, in less than an hour of scrolling down your screen, you are now completely distracted.  The sun out there might still arise sleepy, but your mind has traveled miles away there to the corner of the whole world. 

Daily social media feeds in today's world are bombarded with information disasters. There are terribly abundant amounts of unfiltered information that we sometimes do not recognize becoming our daily brain food. Too much input often makes us exhausted, especially when we have no borders to filter the information into clear deviation. This situation takes us into stress, anxiety and overthinking as if the world is now filled with all chaos. Then how to be still?

Detox and be disconnected from social media.
Due to KIC, netizens travel to the online world for 6 hours per day. This is similar to a trip from Jakarta to Solo, and almost flying you from Singapore to Dubai. Most of the time online is spent overwatching the life of others in social media, and it raises overthinking levels because people tend to compare everything.

Being offline
News is somehow a disaster to our peace. The world tension that has been increasing in recent years since COVID, Russian Invasion, Genocide in Palestine, and the loss of public trust to world's top leaders is so torturing. This raises the level of threat and makes us so uncomfortable. However, this shows us how very small we are as humans and the world is running out of the peaceful race that we have expected. Nonetheless, online detox is the option to refocus our energy to be productive striving for something that we can control and let go of the rest.

Stop comparing
Comparison towards others is a serious killer. It gets worse when we are the one who compares ourselves to someone who might seem better, yet this act is unfair. We must remember that everyone is designed very customized and unique. All people might have different starting points, privileges, struggle, challenge, and sacrifice. However, all of us are actually moving on our own timing and orbit which bring us to a different race of life.

Slow down
The pace of the world often runs very fast, and the bit is somehow difficult to follow. Slowing down is currently becoming a special skill to be mastered. We understand that nothing is instant, and everything needs a process and time. Remember that the real battle is between "me" and "me before now". Therefore, slowing down means giving more time to process everything in life more clearly and on point.

Avoid toxic and drama people
Toxic people are commonly found in our living hood as manipulative and fake. They have a high ego to be filled no matter crossing other people's limitations. However, we certainly will not be able to be "toxic people free". Practicing people decluttering is important because peace is laid when we can avoid toxic people at all costs.

Stop over-analyzing
The campaign on sharpening critical thinking is widely spread this recent years. To see more detail on that, critical thinking supposed to be seen as a tool kit, and we use it only when needed. Critical thinking all the time can lead into over analyzing. We tend to always ask why and too much searching for the answer till we forget that it drains a lot of energy. Therefore, many things in world can happen just because simply it has to, no matter how hard we try to reveal. For the rest of it, sometimes other things just need our sincere acceptance.

Build a personal bubble
Personal bubble means that we create our own limitations and design the primary circle surrounding us. It can be in the form of our comfort zone and comfort people. Right here, we determine our values, beliefs, and actions.

The never-ending challenges in life might be the growing process of ourselves. Therefore, we deserve better peace in doing our way of life.