What Would You Do if You Couldn’t Use Your iPhone?

I just walked into a café and felt inspired to ask the girl what would she do if she couldn’t use her iPhone.  She displayed surprise as she hadn’t thought this before.

I explained to her I am 53.  She was surprised and asked me my secret.  I said I look young because I’ve travelled, I am positive and I exercise.

I then explained why I asked her given our age difference, she has grown up with iPhones whereas I grew up without them.

I asked her again, she said she would buy another iPhone.  I said what if a massive solar flare hit the planet and no-one could use their iPhones.  I could see she had never imagined this.  She was at a loss.  I said again, what would you do?  She didn’t know.

I then said sit with that and then you will know what you should do.

I smiled and left.

What I saw was that her life purpose would reveal when she let go of the addiction of the iPhone as she sought to fill in gaps.

Only can the real meaning of our lives reveal when we become still enough to notice where life moves us.  Life is unfolding from moment to moment in ways we can’t predict, yet we flow with it as is our nature.  When we are aware we notice those things we wouldn’t notice if we are glued to technology.  We notice what people are doing, what they wear, what they are saying, doing, being and the environment around us.  I notice the lighting, the sounds, the design, the opportunity. It get’s very exciting when I just allow myself to follow impulses and suddenly new experiences open up.  I am amazed at the magic.  It is continuous, it is interesting and it keeps my mind in a beta wave, alert and curious. If I become drawn into technology as a distraction, time goes fast but my external world is ignored and the cues of that world do not exist.  I have moved through so many places, I change virtually every day and as a result I am learning wherever I go.  I am not in a pattern repeating where I forget where I am and suddenly arrive.  I am conscious not unconscious.  I live fully in the moment.  Perhaps that is why I am young looking.

My words to her were a revelation.