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For more than a week I was disconnected from reality

Francisco Miraval

Earlier last week, I person I barely know sent me an email complaining I was not responding to his calls and I was ignoring the voice messages he left in my phone several times in the previous few days. At that moment I discovered there was something wrong with my phone: all calls were automatically sent to the voice mail, but I did not receive any notification about the calls or the messages.

I called the cell phone company and, after speaking for almost two hours with six different persons (the first four in Spanish and the other two in English), the issue was finally solved. For reasons nobody was able to explain, for several days my phone failed to “register” in the network and, therefore, I was unable to receive any call.

Even more problematic was the fact that the calls went directly to voice mail without any kind of notification. I didn’t know anybody was calling me or that I had message. Such are the wonders of modern technology.

The problem was solved, but I had to apologize to several people, sending messages to them explaining what has happened. At the same time, I was wondering about two circumstances.

First, I didn’t like the fact that I never thought nor detected that there was a problem with my phone, as if technology could not fail. Second, I didn’t like the fact that some people assumed there was something wrong with me, not with my phone. I said nothing to them because after all they, like me, assume technology is infallible.

I still don’t know how many messages or call I lost and I don’t know the consequences of not replying to those messages. I only know that for several days, due to my phone, I was unconnected and I didn’t notice it. That let me to think that perhaps I am also disconnected from reality and I don’t even know it.

In the same way I didn’t receive calls or voice messages, I wonder how many books I should have read I didn’t, how many songs I never heard, now many homilies never arrived to my ears, how many conversations remained muted, and how many discoveries are still undiscovered because of my own (voluntary?) disconnection from others and from the world.

So, my phone was “unregistered” and I didn’t notice it. What ideas, beliefs, or actions are part of my life that are still “unregistered” with the universe and I still haven’t notice it or, even worst, I assume everything is OK?

Last week, somebody (yes, he was angry) contacted me to tell me there was something wrong with my phone, but, who will call me to let me know that there is something my connection with the universe, or transcendence, or spiritual issues?

Five centuries before Common Era, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus spoke about a universal connection, that he called (in Greek) logos. Heraclitus lamented people paid so little attention to logos. Heraclitus was right.

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