CHARMAIN NAIDOO: Will being hounded by our explorations lead us to stop doing so?
The question during my Netflix documentary watching is whether it is necessary to actually make the trip when I can access almost everything online
We live in a curious, confusing time. To try to make sense of it all, to make the switch to the new way things are being done in the world, I believe it is necessary to acknowledge, and perhaps come to terms with, how much of our privacy, our individuality and our freedom we have relinquished control of.
I am suffering from the reverberating echo of my own thoughts, being hounded by the technology that I am using to help me navigate my way through an information overload.
I am in the throes of planning an overseas holiday. Though, if you consider the meaning of the word throe to be a severe pang or spasm of pain, I should not really be in the throes at all.
If anything, I ought to be having the time of my life looking at options and having deep conversations with myself about what it is I want to do, where it is I want to go...
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