I guess everyone remembers the white rabbit from “Alice in Wonderland”. Now you might ask what we all have in common with Mr. McTwisp. Well, the correct question is what our digital life have in common with him? Everything started with the Facebook status update, twitter’s tweets and other fast pace service’s updates in the digital world. They enabled us to know everything that happens everywhere across the world in the instant. Adding to this was the break through of smart packet sized phones and devices, that vibrate and flash as someone did something in our virtual reality. Increasingly, we felt that our lives are limited to what happens on our screens, big or smalls (more on this here). But with this came a lot of anxiety and lot of other new problems like phantom vibration syndrome. The one I am talking about here is more related to fear of missing out (FoMo). The bizarre feeling that we are left out from what is happening online. That’s why we keep on checking on our phones every other second or on our way to work or while waiting for our food in a restaurant. It seems we are always late for the latest update that might change our lives! or if we are going to miss out of what literally everyone else on the planet is doing. We feel that we are always late! Really late! For something very important that we don’t even know. If that does sound familiar, its cause the rabbit said it all time:

“Oh, my fur and whiskers! I’m late, I’m late I’m late!”

And that is the white rabbit syndrome. I am fearful that we are all getting overwhelmed with trying to be in the moment (as some call it the “now” syndrome). The Internet is just turning us to white rabbits. While actually being the moment has more to do with taking a look around and see life.