I'm a little lazy about the media and experts' hysteria regarding "Generation Y", young people born between the beginning of the 80s and until the middle of the decade before last. I fit into this group of people who grew up with the internet, bombarded with information and adapted to this way of life.
I'm always busy, dealing with different subjects at the same time and the other day I made a list and in one there were 23 different topics. It's really a lot and I never turn it off, even when I go to sleep, I spend time beforehand reading Twitter, sending ideas and reminders to my email, sometimes I even get insomnia because of it.
But today, returning from Rio – which will lead to another post tomorrow or Monday – I noticed how important it is to disconnect a little from everything and be out of contact with the outside world. During the flight there was no one for me to talk to, my cell phone was turned off and no computer for me to access.
In those 40 minutes to São Paulo I thought about subjects that I never have time for because I'm always connected and they don't fit into the daily life I live in. I thought about my personal, professional and family evolution, I analyzed certain decisions I've made in recent years, the dreams I left behind, the ones I accomplished, the ones I'm yet to accomplish. With that I was sure that periods alone in some deserted place are necessary.
No connection, no parties, no friends, no one to reflect more time on life and the direction I'm taking it. And as I said on Twitter this week, this is not depression or anything that refers to sadness, it is a desire to do this analysis, because I confess that I have no reason to be sad, on the contrary.
But no matter how much I go to a place totally disconnected from the world, I won't be able to do without at least a little notebook, because with this madness that has been life, what I don't write down I end up forgetting, now the hard part is knowing if I'll go I can stand to spend two days, whatever, away from this busy life that I love so much.
