Are you Really on Holiday?

A POSTCARD TO YOU: I'm aghast as I sit melting away all traces of stress in the heat of the Majorca sun - you see I'm two weeks into a beach holiday and just getting into my 'holiday stride' - or more accurately, a holiday swagger. Life's pretty chilled I can admit, watching from the shade of my straw umbrella, on a much-prized sunbed I've been lucky enough to secure, I see bikini clad teenagers play bat and ball, women dip their babies in the shoreline ripples as men in trunks sip at ice cold beers at the beach bar - very 'tranquillo' as the locals put it. Yet, one thing that still astonishes me is the amount of time that these beach lovers spend on their mobiles while in this idyllic setting!  Really? - do they really need to be 'somewhere else' too?  Can life not do without them for a couple of hours?

I'm seven months into living mobile free and I'm still alive and very much living in the moment all the time, Being in the now - I'm living life with 100% consciousness and it makes me acutely aware of how many people are not.

I realise sadly that maybe I am one of the few who are really 'on holiday' and free to relax fully without any tech to pull my attention away. So why not take a holiday from your smartphone - after all, when were you last truly on holiday? Keep your tech habit in check and you'll discover so many exciting things. - WISH YOU WERE 'HERE' x