what if we had ONE day, a “holiday”, that we took as seriously as New Year’s Eve or Black Friday, Chinese new year or Christmas or Valentine’s Day, Yom Kippur or veteran’s day? What if we had a holiday where we all got off the internet? Turned off our social media apps, maybe even put our phones and computers away in drawers. What if for 24 hours the entire world got on board with being present, here and now, without the scrolling and the “liking”, the “google that” or “ask Siri” this? What if for one full day we could just be where we were and trust that we weren’t missing out on what our friends and family, influencers or podcast hosts had to say online that day?

What if for one day we could move through our life without the dopamine hits that come with posting and tagging, liking and sharing? What if for one single day we all gave ourselves the gift of remembering what life felt like without the constant pull to see what we may have missed on Instagram in the last seven minutes while we drove the the grocery store? What if we just put our hands on the steering wheel and eyes on the road and sang out loud to the music that played in our heads, windows down. What if we really saw what was in front of us all day long? Maybe we could see the miracles we often miss. Maybe we would recognize when our body says “I need a deep breath” or maybe we would see the ten dollar bill on the ground that we’d normally walk right by.

Maybe we would make eye contact with 10% more people than usual. Maybe we would smile more and be smiled at more. Maybe we would actually look into our dog’s eyes rather than just posing them for a photo at the beach. Maybe we wouldn’t need to check the stock market or weather or score of the baseball game while eating dinner with people we love. Maybe we would make a recipe from our great grandmother’s hand written cook book instead of googling recipes for an hour and constantly getting olive oil on our phone to remember which step came next. Maybe the whole vibration of the planet would change. Presence can do that. Maybe we would see things in our life that we don’t actually like.

Maybe we would leave a relationship or a job because we’d finally become still and aware enough to see where we’d been numbing out and what we’d been pretending not to see. Maybe the world would go up in chaos. Or maybe the world would become 5% more calm. Maybe Mother Earth would exhale a little bit finally feeling an ounce of relief from the constant buzz of EMFs and 5G. I really don’t know what would happen, but it’s one of my big dreams to find out.

micayla jean

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