1. Mistake information for knowledge
2. Mistake connections for relationships
3. Mistake convenience for happiness
1. Mistake information for knowledge - Knowledge involves listening, and knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Our brain is at work processing the information it receives in order to choose and sift so that we can discard the information we do not want and store the information which is meaningful for us.
2. Mistake connections for relationships - A connection is something superficial. It can be made with a click of the mouse on Facebook or Twitter or any of the social network platforms. A connection has no rules, no commitment, no expectation. A connection can be ‘unfollowed’ at any time. A relationship needs commitment, needs time, needs sharing, must be reciprocal, and is multilayered. Since it is an entwining of hearts and minds, breaking a relationship is not easy and involves a great deal of pain and suffering.
3. Mistake convenience for happiness. Conveniences are bought or arranged to make life comfortable. Soon, we see we need more conveniences, and more perfect conveniences to make life easier and better. The pleasure that conveniences give us is transitory and does not give us either a sense of fulfilment or completeness. There is always something lacking. Happiness, on the other hand is the change that happens to our internal landscape. Our brain, heart, senses are all at work interpreting what we see, hear, and experience. Internally we are learning, absorbing, and making choices in keeping with what we believe will bring us peace and happiness…a feeling of quietness and contentment. Further, life teaches us from a very young age that there is no such thing as perfection. We are a part of the universe, and the universe is ever-changing, ever-evolving, and ever-growing.