It's very true. As we learn new things, we forget old ones. And children, who are not very wise in the ways of adults, are very, very smart when it comes to feeling and acting and mainly being.
As we grow up, many of us find ourselves running away from "being" (because being is scary, and sometimes doesn't seem as important as life's worries), and get ourselves stuck in the "doing". I believe you discussed it a while ago, in a different post about running away from our physical reality.
I see many people who can't live without their smartphones, for example, because they need the constant noise, the constant drawing of attention from things that can really worry and affect them, like being.
A few years ago, when I moved abroad, I decided I wasn't going to have a phone, at all. I stuck to that decision for 9 months. In those months, I wandered around the new city, just me and my camera, for many many days. I found myself slightly returning to childhood, in the sense that I felt my heart expanding, I was looking at things differently, I wasn't occupied by anything external and could maintain the wonders I was feeling, contain them and process them. I think that we, as adults, can still be like children in that aspect, even though we know better than to trust anything and anyone. We just have to practice it, and try to be and not to do.
Indeed.
Like you I have love-hate relationship with the Portable electronic devices. It serves me greatly for work purposes, but it needs to be left aside more often. Facebook for example. Since I have been writing on steemit fb has lost its charm and i deliberately stay away from that platform as much as possible.
I practically live on FB, simply because that's my main connection to the Motherland and my friends and family there, but I understand what you mean. Since I work from home, I try to limit my FB time to the computer and not to mobile (it's so much less comfortable on mobile, really), and there are apps I'm simply unwilling to install on my phone, because I know they'll simply consume my time when I'm away from home (on the metro, for example), and won't give me some time to simply... be.
Exactly! 👍