9/10/16

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want you to know that they are impressed with how our brains work. They marvel at how we can take on multiple tasks and do a million things at once. They appreciate that our brains are wonders of evolution and so complex and seemingly limitless.

They also want to tell you to knock it off. Sometimes you do have to do a bunch of stuff all at once, there's no getting around it, but most of the time you don't. It's a function of our brains that is meant to be used when we need it, not a mode we should be set in 24/7.

Most of the time you are making up for when you procrastinated instead of handling your responsibilities. Or you're procrastinating now, looking for diversions to avoid doing something you don't feel like doing.

More often than not, you're just a victim of the constant bombardment we are all subject to these days, a non stop barrage of news and entertainment and social media.

So everything we do suffers. We are distracted and divided and the end result is that a lot of the time we do everything half assed.

That includes our relationships. We ignore or pay lip service to the people at love because we are caught up in our instant connection to the world through our phones and devices. We don't even realize what we are turning into. We all deserve better than that.

We deserve to do our best, not the bare minimum. Our self esteem suffers every time we settle.

Our loved ones deserve our undivided attention. Their self esteem suffers when we choose Facebook over them.

The world deserves people that pay attention to what they read and see, so they can make better decisions and not get caught up in all the buzzing and flash of what passes for news these days.

Perhaps we should work towards doing one thing at a time more often. That seems to go against what appears to be the norm nowadays. It seems like multitasking is celebrated and encouraged, but why? Who is putting that idea out there? What entity wants us to think that we deserve praise when we are working and consuming at peak volume, whether it is good for us or not? Who profits from that?

The stars know that we need to focus on what's important, and they know that sometimes that takes work, and conscious effort. But if we don't, everything we have and everything we do will pay the price for our distracted lifestyle.