After my near panic attack the other day, I decided to take a step back and unplug from technology.

If only for a day.

I realize looking back, that I had spent most of that day clutching my phone, checking my email, social media, the news. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

It was an attempt to stay informed, educated, in the loop, in control, but the more I learned the less I knew. And the more in control of things outside of my control I tried to be, the more frantic and desperate I became.

What was real, what was hype, what was truth, what was speculation? It was a dizzying amount of links and articles and interpretations.

I was down the rabbit hole.

It is good to be educated and informed. To want to know things. To seek out information and knowledge. To grow and expand and take it all in.

For me, in that moment however, it was all too much.

So I unplugged.

I put the laptop in a drawer, put the phone on vibrate and concentrated on the here and now.

I went for a walk.

I listened to music.

I read a book.

I donated blood when I saw the Red Cross truck parked at the church next door.

I lived a quiet day in a small life and left the big things to the Universe. And the next day the sun rose as it always does and I realized that the world had kept on spinning without me watching over it.