This story is about how strong a person's desire is to get what he wants, despite the difficult and thorny path to his goal - to get in touch.
Our life is amazing. It is full of interesting stories that are worth talking about because they teach us something new, which gives us experience, and a map of how to act in a given situation. Modern man has become dependent on those things that he himself created. This is not good, and not bad, this is just a statement of the fact that tells us that we are developing, growing, and can no longer do without everyday things, such as a telephone, the Internet, a car, etc.
This story is about how strong a person's desire is to get what he wants, despite the difficult and thorny path to his goal - to get in touch.
Despite all the development of the human spirit, it is getting harder and harder to do without a means of communication with the outside world. A person is used to doing the things that society dictates to him. Most people's world model is similar, and this is not surprising. What is the first thing a person does when he wakes up? He looks at the clock, turns on the TV or computer, and goes to perform the morning ritual with a brush and toothpaste. The second human action in the morning is breakfast, which is accompanied by access to the global network - the Internet. Checking mail, social networks, news feed, listening to music, watching videos - this is a standard set of those actions that a person performs on the Internet, regardless of the time of day and the workload of the day. But what if the internet wasn't as accessible as it is now? What if you had to overcome some kind of obstacle to get in touch? How would a person behave in this situation?
The Internet is not available everywhere. In some places of our planet, they have not heard of him at all. Maybe the media are not working well, maybe the fiber optic technology has not yet reached some places, but one way or another, the global web is not available everywhere, as well as other means of cellular communication.
One amazing story happened to a man who spent a very large amount of time on the global web. Alex went to the mountains to rest his body and soul. However, he could not even imagine that there would be no communication in the mountains. No. Generally. Cell phone out of range. There is no internet. How to keep in touch with friends who stayed in the metropolis?
It was possible to hold out without cellular communication and the Internet for only a couple of days. Then Alex began to look for places where this very connection could be caught. The camp site was in the mountains, and in addition, it was covered with trees, which did not allow even radio waves to penetrate. The search for a place where it was possible to catch a cellular connection, and therefore the Internet, was crowned with success on the same day, when it was urgently needed. Just 3 kilometers from where Alex was staying, it was possible to get in touch. To do this, it was necessary to walk 3 kilometers on a country road, and climb the mountain. Voila! Internet is available!
The ritual of getting in touch was repeated until the very departure. Whenever the need for communication was very serious, Alex went for a half-hour walk.
Now imagine a situation if every person had to act like this to go online or make a phone call? Would you start looking for places where there is a connection? Would you walk 3 kilometers to read a post on a social media site, or to watch your favorite football team play? Send SMS or call? Imagine that in the morning a person would have to walk 3 kilometers to a computer to go online? Good exercise, huh?
We have become too dependent on those things that we ourselves have created. We use them every day, and we cannot begin to live without these things. This is not only about the Internet, cell phones.
"People give up more often than fail" (c) Henry Ford
