Information Overload

In this fast paced technologically advanced world we are daily bombarded with new information. How is that we are going to keep up with all the new and up-to-date information? One day the news research proves the benefits of a certain pill. A week or months later it could be on recall. What happens if we do not watch or read the news on the day it’s recalled?

Even if the benefits advertised are not negated, there’s other companies that come up with some other product that offers the same benefit, we decide to check that out. I don’t know about you, but I know I have.

Today when I was making my instant coffee, I decided to sprinkle some cinnamon in it, thinking that my mom says it’s good for the blood. As I took my coffee cup and got in the car with my parents, I had an urge to ask my mom what was the benefit of using cinnamon again, but I didn’t because she was busy reading something. So in my head I was flipping through all the filed information…ding, ding ding ding ….the benefits of using cinnamon, then I remembered few years back I had read an herbal article that said cinnamon helps thin the blood. I told my mom , and since then she uses cinnamon religiously. Not that she didn’t use it before; Indians use cinnamon in cooking, but she had not used it in her cocoa or tea.

Here, I had read forgotten about the article while she always made sure to take it, while I read and let go, read and let go, read and let go.

There is so much information how do we keep up with them. As for my mother, she, like many other people, who are not technologically apt, get the information, retain it, and follow it. No wonder it’s difficult to change their view points, because they have believed something as true for a long time- but that’s another story.

We are in a time where our brains are overloaded with new information daily, we read, retain, and new research comes in, we let go of the “old” information, read, retain and let go the old and read, and retain. So you see it’s a cycle. We are constantly bombarded with new information over the internet, through magazines, television, billboards, newspapers, and cell phones.

Is it the thirst for new information, or capitalism that drives human beings to new findings? Why do we let go of what works in search for something we think or are told will work even better. A better health, better work, better self esteem, new look, new body, new ways of doing things- new new new. We have become phlegmatic.