If I were to truly be off the grid I would use a typewriter instead of a word processor, app or some other contraption that involves software born of the digital age.
Being off the grid is something occasionally looked at admirably, yet it is also largely unattainable.
That has prevented many of us establishing it as a preferred way of life regarding healthy living.
My dog is off the grid.
Always has been.
And speaking of always, he has been a constant source of inspiration to me as to how to live.
Currently, he is scratching his behind.
I get it. It itches. So you scratch it.
How many of us want to scratch our rear ends but cannot? Not because we live in a digital world either. It’s because of who is around that we do not just naturally rear back and scratch like man’s best friend.
The presence of mixed company is especially treacherous when considering such endeavors and is also the prime reason for choosing to wait.
I am lucky enough to have experienced an upbringing completely off the grid. Unless that is, you consider the general, electric grid that supported such devices as transistor radios and television sets (as) the grid. If I were deemed to be on a grid, though, it was far different than the digital one we now know.
Getting a “like” is an outpouring of the digital world.
In the off the grid world I grew up in, you would like “something” or someone could like you, but you could not actually get a like, unless, of course, you considered something or someone liking you as getting a like. We, of course, considered no such thing.
Getting a like can cause many of us to experience happy thoughts and feelings. I think somewhere and by somebody or entity, corporation or university, it’s been proven that someone other than you liking your photo or status update can cause your body to release feel-good hormones similar to those that flow following a hug and kiss from your significant other.
All of this is a lot to think about so forgive me if I choose to largely ignore the social media significance of the like.
The like has no power over me as a result of my choosing not to pay it any attention. So far it feels like a pretty off the grid type of attitude to adopt. It also does not appear that I am any less happy for doing so.
People ask if we are happy and if we thought we would get a like on a social media post (but instead did not receive one), that it may be cause for some temporary unhappiness. As unhappiness is typically always temporary and not permanent, I would suggest your unhappy states will all pass rather quickly and regardless of whether likes are involved.
As long as your dog and significant other like you, anyone or anything else that likes you, your social media post or your socks for that matter is simply gravy.
This too is now in the past.