It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.
It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.
For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings.
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected to your environment on a local scale, but also to yourself - whether you can operate from something beyond the definition that others might place on you.
Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.